Compiling GnuCash on Windows

[Derek Atkins]

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> I'd like to hear whether these things work, in case you have some time to 
> check them in detail: 
> - Creating a new file (with default account hierarchy)

This doesn't work for me.  I do File -> New File and I get an
empty window.  It doesn't pop up the druid or anything.

> - Creating more accounts in that file

This works.

> - Adding transactions to these accounts
> - running reports, particularly "account summary", "income statement", 
> "balance sheet"
> - Changing some preferences (are these preserved when shutting down (without 
> crashing) and starting again?)

I haven't tried any of these.

>> 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?

-derek

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