gnucash2 C binary, cashutil and scheme

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Looks like an environment problem -- most likely you're either using
multiple environments, or not exporting the symbol, or not loading
the scheme file where the symbol is defined.  I don't know offhand and
I don't have time to track it down..

However, I do want to ask how this distraction is going to help get
G2 out the door?  And yes, I do consider this is a distraction right now.
Once G2 is out the door, great, let's work full bore on this, but right
now we REALLY REALLY REALLY need to get G2 finished.

-derek

Quoting Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk>:

> OK, now I'm stuck.
> :-)
> http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/12326
>
> I've got a popt-compliant, gettext-compliant, command line option handling C
> binary application launcher, called src/bin/gnucash2 - installed to
> bin/gnucash2 - in the cashutil branch. It's only four steps from the cashutil
> application in that it lacks the interactive shell, lacks undo, has a --gui
> command but lacks the ability to be installed without the gnucash gui. It
> also lacks any support for guile on the command line - how important is that?
> (Bearing in mind it *does* support SQL-type queries instead.)
>
> (and it's only 32kb).
>
> $ /opt/garfield/cashutil-svn/bin/gnucash2
> Usage: gnucash2 [-g|--gui] [--no-file] [-?|--help] [--usage] [-l|--list]
>        [--explain] [-x|--xml-file filename] [-t|--date string]
>        [-d|--database string] [-e|--exclude string] [-s|--sql string]
>        [-f|--sql-file filename] [-w|--write filename] [--compress=integer]
>        [--debug] [--version] [-c|--category string]
>
>   GnuCash: Open Source Accounting Software
>   See http://www.gnucash.org/
>   Use --help for more detailed help or
>   -g to load the gnucash main window.
>   Use exactly one of -x -l -g --explain;
>   options are -c -t -w, -d or -e, -s or -f.
>
> (--category is a hangover from it's pilot-qof heritage - I'm well into code
> reuse! - probably too confusing to remain, what with all the category
> handling in Quicken etc.) For detailed explanations of the other options, see
> the pilot-qof manpages.
> http://code.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/pilot-qof.html
>
> My initial problem is that some modules call scm functions in their init
> routines so I've had to boot guile earlier than I had planned.
>
> I'm now a little lost. All the modules are loaded (I've got an auto-load
> routine that simply loads every installed gnc-module so new modules could
> theoretically be added without recompiling) and I get this at the last stage
> of the splash-screen:
>
> Backtrace:
> In current input:
>   1: 0* (gnc:debugging?)
>
> <unnamed port>:1:1: In expression (gnc:debugging?):
> <unnamed port>:1:1: Unbound variable: gnc:debugging?
>
> I need someone skilled in scheme to help me out in the cashutil 
> branch and get
> this working.
>
> (Don't worry about the plentiful g_messages, those can be removed in due
> course and any errors logged to /tmp/gnucash.trace - because I've also been
> able to initialise the QofLog earlier than the existing gnucash scripts.)
>
> In case you wonder, the gnucash/engine gnc-module is no longer used in the
> branch (replaced by calls to QOF) but I also need some help to clear it out
> from the scheme as it appears to be required somewhere other than the
> gnc-module init functions. I've removed every occurrence with:
> find . -name \*.c | xargs grep "if(\!gnc_module_load(\"gnucash/engine\", 0))"
>
> Finance::Quote is the remaining component to load. (Unless I've missed
> something - quite possible.)
>
> --
>
> Neil Williams
> =============
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>
>



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