GnuCash 2.3.6 - not starting on Windows XP

[Christian Stimming]

Zitat von Kim_Wood <kim.wood at bigpond.net.au>:
> Same problem here.  No nightly build or recently released 2.3.6 Win versions
> will run on my XP or Vista boxes after the r18350 version.  This is the most
> recent build that will run successfully, nothing after it,

This is in bugzilla already: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596248

We don't build any binary that depends on MSVCR71.dll (we would have  
to use the
MS VIsual Studio Compiler, but we don't use it). Instead, I'd suspect you have
some other DLL somewhere in your path which gets picked up accidentally, and
this one in turn depends on MSVCR71.dll.

The only real way to find this out is to install the dependency walker
www.dependencywalker.com, then checking all .exe of the c:\Program
Files\GnuCash\bin directory and also each of the DLLs in c:\Program
Files\GnuCash\lib\gnucash to see whether any one of these will show a
dependency on MSVCR71.dll. THen, dependency walker will also show by which
intermediate step this dependency was pulled in, which usually will point out
one DLL that was picked up accidentally in your PATH.

Regards,

Christian

> Jacek Baszkiewicz-2 wrote:
>> Today I've downloaded GnuCash 2.3.6 (win installer) and I had problems
>> with opening of GnuCash 2.3.6 on Windows XP. Click on the pulpit icon,
>> splash screen, tip's screen and nothing more. I have information from
>> some guy who had the same problem today.
>> I have also some screenshot from my Win 2003 Server where situation is
>> the same.
>> Linux version from sources starts normally.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Jacek Baszkiewicz