win32 quoting paths in gnucash.bat and load errors on win ME

[Nathan Buchanan]

I agree that WinME is old.  Do we know of anyone else who has tried it on
WinME? Have we heard of any successes? If not, I'd like to add a note to
wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows that windows versions before XP are known not
to be able to run gnucash. Any objections?

Nathan

On 12/30/06, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm not at all suprised that WinME doesn't work, and honeslty as
> a developer I'd like to say that "we don't support anything older
> than WinXP".  WinME is like 5+ years old, and is certainly no longer
> supported by Microsoft.
>
> Sorry.
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Nathan Buchanan <nbinont at yahoo.ca>:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > This is my first time posting.
> >
> > I just finished compiling r15278 on windows xp home, and seemed to run
> fine
> > (for the minimal check that I did). I then created the binary installer,
> and
> > tried to install it on a windows ME box. I noticed the following:
> >
> > 1. The attempt to set the path in gnucash.bat failed. (set
> PATH=C:\Program
> > Files\gnucash\bin;C:\Program Files\gnucash\lib\bin;%PATH%). I was able
> to
> > get it to succeed by quoting the path: (set PATH="C:\Program
> > Files\gnucash\bin;C:\Program Files\gnucash\lib\bin;%PATH%"). The %PATH%
> did
> > expand when quoted.
> > I don't know where this bat file is generated or how to edit it...could
> > someone give me a hint? Also, should all paths be quoted in this bat
> file?
> > (WinXP is a bit more clever about spaces in paths, as I'm sure you've
> > noticed.)
> >
> > 2. After setting 2-3 environment variables I got the "Out of Environment
> > space" error. It seems that the default is 256 _bytes_!! The bat file
> can be
> > configured to run with as much as 4096 Kb of "initial environment"
> space.
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230205 . Setting this value solved that
> > problem. If we could set this property on the bat file, the problem
> would be
> > solved.
> >
> > 3. The oh, so fun part.... I got past the "start gnucash-bin.exe" call
> and
> > got the warning message messge about "this is a devlopemt version and
> may
> > not work... ".  Somewhere the title of the window changed to
> > "gspawn-win32-helper-console". I suspect this means
> > gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe is running. Then I got about 2 screens
> of
> > the following:
> >
> > Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/account_separator: Failed to
> launch
> > configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file or
> > directory)
> > Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/auto_decimal_point: Failed to
> > launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such
> file
> > or directory)
> > Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/auto_decimal_places: Failed to
> > launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such
> file
> > or directory)
> > Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/date_format: Failed to launch
> > configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file or
> > directory)
> > Failed to add history section to watched directories in gconf: Failed to
> > launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such
> file
> > or directory)
> > Failed to add history section to watched directories in gconf: Failed to
> > launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such
> file
> > or directory)
> > Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/toolbar_style: Failed to launch
> > configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file or
> > directory)
> > Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_style:
> > Failed to launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process
> (No
> > such file or directory)
> > Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/tab_position: Failed to launch
> > configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such file or
> > directory)
> > _get_global_font_dc: The parameter is incorrect.
> >
> > Any ideas? This is the same binary that worked on my win xp home box.
> >
> > 4. Finally I got a message box cleverly informing me that "Pango-ERROR
> **:
> > Unable to create Win32 cairo scaled font. This means out of memory or a
> > ciaro/fontconfig/Free Type bug. aborting..."
> >
> > Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help debug this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nathan
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> >
>
>
>
> --
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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