Compiling GnuCash on Windows

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 06:28:56PM +0100, Christian Stimming wrote:
> >>> Also, in the command prompt window is the following:
> >>>
> >>> gnucash: [E] "Failed to fork child process."
> >> This is probably because gnucash tries to save the file in compressed form, 
> >> which requires a separate gzip process that won't work on windows. In short, 
> >> in the preferences please uncheck the checkbox under General -> File -> 
> >> Compress file. Does saving work, then?
> > 
> > I wonder if we should just disable this feature on win32?
> 
> The feature is already disabled on windows, see io-gncxml-v2.c:1243. I
> tried to find the place that's causing this "failed to fork" message,
> but apparently it doesn't come from within gnucash. At least we don't
> have that string anywhere, and the only fork() that gnucash uses is in
> io-gncxml-v2.c which is unused on windows. So I have no idea where this
> comes from, and I'd simply ignore it for now.

That's process.scm which is run during price-quote retrieval.  Perhaps
guile's (primitive-fork) doesn't work on win32.

-chris