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

[Derek Atkins]

I have no objections to such a note on the wiki.

-derek

Quoting Nathan Buchanan <nbinont at gmail.com>:

> 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)
>>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>>
>>
>



-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available