Price quote in GnuCash win32. Does it work?

[jarney1 at cox.net]

I have not gotten it to work under win32 due to the lack of a really good perl.

I have a really good Python, however, and was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea to use it instead of Python for price quotes.

Thoughts?

-JOn

---- zhimin at iss.nus.edu.sg wrote: 
> Hello, 
> 
> Thanks for the wonderful software. 
> 
> Has anyone tried the live price quote in GnuCash win32? Does it work?
> 
> I have compiled GnuCash win32 successfully according to the wiki. To
> enable the live price quote, I have run gnc-fq-update successfully. To run
> gnc-fq-update successfully, I have installed Activeperl 5.8 separately.
> The activeperl 5.6 that comes with msys-DTK cannot complete gnc-fq-update,
> because it will give the compilation error below:
> 
> cc1.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-fnative-struct"
> 
> 
> After running gnc-fq-update with Activeperl 5.8, I can run gnc-fq-dump and
> gnc-fq-helper at shell to get quote without problem. But when I come to
> Add New Security Editor screen
> <http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-guide/figures/invest_newsecuri
> ty.png>, the Quote Source Information check box is disabled, and the label
> "Warning: Finance::Quote is not installed properly" is displayed. What's
> wrong?
> 
> 
> When I exit from Gnucash, I also get this in the command prompt:
> 
> gnucash: [E] "Failed to fork child process."
> 
> And Chris Shoemaker posted in <
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/msg16609.html> that
> it is related to price-quote retrieval and guile in win32.
> 
> Does this mean Finance::Quote fail to load in GnuCash because of guile
> problem?
> Does this mean live price quote won't work at all in GnuCash win32? Any
> way out?
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> cheers,
> zhimin 
> 
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