Compiling GnuCash on Windows

[Brian Blatnik]

Inline, with [BB]

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:15 AM
To: Christian Stimming
Cc: Brian Blatnik; gnucash-devel mailing list
Subject: Re: Compiling GnuCash on Windows

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.

[BB] Works for me, as long as "Perform account list setup on new file" is
checked in Preferences --> General (default is unchecked)

> - Creating more accounts in that file

This works.

[BB] Works for me too

> - Adding transactions to these accounts

[BB] Works

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

[BB] All three crash

> - Changing some preferences (are these preserved when shutting down 
> (without
> crashing) and starting again?)

[BB] Works

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?

[BB] Unchecked is the default, so that wasn't the problem. Still crashes on
Save

-derek

[BB] Let me know if the backtraces would help you immensely and I'll try to
install gdb. 

Thanks,
Brian

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