Compiling GnuCash on Windows

[Brian Blatnik]

Sorry took a while before I had the chance to run with gdb. Here's what
happens when I try to save a file. Thanks for your help!

In the gdb window:

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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: C:\GnuCash\gnucash\bin/gnucash-bin.exe

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x10024a00 in strcmp ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x10024a00 in strcmp ()
#1  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)


And in the gnucash-bin window:

This is a development version. It may or may not work.
Report bugs and other problems to gnucash-devel at gnucash.org.
You can also lookup and file bug reports at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
The last stable version was GnuCash 2.0.2
The next stable version will be GnuCash 2.2

gnucash: [E] "Failed to fork child process."

(gnucash:5684): Gtk-WARNING **: file_system_win32=026C5B80 still has
handle=0269
2F20 at finalization which is NOT CANCELLED!

(gnucash:5684): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid uninstantiatable type
`void' in
 cast to `GtkFileSystemWin32'

(gnucash:5684): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion `hash_table
!=
NULL' failed 



-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Stimming [mailto:stimming at tuhh.de] 
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 9:29 AM
To: Derek Atkins
Cc: Brian Blatnik; gnucash-devel mailing list
Subject: Re: Compiling GnuCash on Windows

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For me on win2000/SP4 with r15078 and the updated gnome packages according
to the recent commits in custom.sh, I get these:

>> - Creating a new file (with default account hierarchy)

Works for me just fine. The account hierarchy druid comes up and gives all
the locale=C choices that are shipped with gnucash.

>> - Creating more accounts in that file

Works.

>> - Adding transactions to these accounts

Works.

>> - running reports, particularly "account summary", "income 
>> statement", "balance sheet"

Doesn't work. I tried to run gnucash under gdb,
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#gdb , and surprisingly enough then it
works! All of the text reports will simply work when running under gdb...
sigh.

>>- Saving to file

Works just fine as well, probably due to the recent gtk upgrade.

>>> 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.

Christian
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