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

[Nathan Buchanan]

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On 12/30/06, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > gnucash-devel mailing list
> >> > gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> >> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>        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
>
>