I want to learn how to customize reports

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 19 February 2015 14:03:51 Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2015 16:23:14 Dmitry Pavlov wrote:
> > GnuCash uses guile as a scheme impl.
> 
> Indeed, gnucash uses guile. So you probably want to work with that
> because each implementation speaks a different dialect.
> 
> The downside is that guile is not a windows native package. So when
> you install gnucash it works well from within gnucash, but it's less
> obvious how to use it independently of gnucash.
> 
> Here is one way you could do it:
> 
> - Open a command prompt (cmd.exe)
> - Type
> SET GUILE_LOAD_PATH=%ProgramFiles%\gnucash\share\guile\1.8
> %ProgramFiles%\gnucash\bin\guile.exe

Eh sorry, that second command needs quotes:
"%ProgramFiles%"\gnucash\bin\guile.exe

Geert

> 
> The first command makes sure guile finds all of its modules, the
> second will start an interactive guile session.
> 
> > I think you should better try to install cygwin and then install
> > guile for it, using it's package management feature.
> 
> Be careful with installing gnucash and cygwin under the same user
> account. From past reports it looks like this is a recipe for crashes
> in gnucash.
> 
> If you want to go the cygwin route, please install it under a separate
> user account on your pc, and make sure it doesn't install for all
> users.
> 
> > As an alternative you can run Ubuntu in virtual maching (virtual box
> > for example)
> 
> That would also be an option.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Geert
> 
> > 2015-02-19 14:52 GMT+03:00 David Christopher <chrstdvd at gmail.com>:
> > > I have been studying the process on this page:
> > > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports
> > > 
> > > The first thing I run into is that I have to learn Scheme.  So off
> > > to this page:
> > > http://www.scheme.com/tspl2d/start.html#g1546  where I am told I
> > > need
> > > a ""interactive
> > > Scheme system"" .
> > > 
> > > I goggled that and got to this page:
> > > 
> > > ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_81
> > > .h
> > > tml#SEC87
> > > 
> > > That page tells me I need RScheme.  I goggled that finally
> > > downloaded this. rs-0.7.3.4-b7.tar.gz
> > > 
> > > I used 7 Zip to unpack that and now have a folder in my downloads
> > > "rs-0.7.3.4-b7.tar" and I can use 7 Zip to open that and see the
> > > files in there.
> > > 
> > > What do I do with those files and folders?  How do I install
> > > RScheme.?
> > > 
> > > Is there someplace I can go to get an exe file to install?
> > > 
> > > Is that even what I need for a Windows 7 64x system?  If not what
> > > do
> > > I need to follow the tutorials on scheme.?
> > > 
> > > I did download and install this mit-scheme-9.2-i386-win32 but I
> > > can
> > > not figure out what to do with it and was not sure it is what I
> > > need so I uninstalled it.
> > > 
> > > I am off to a rocky start.  Hahaha!
> > > 
> > > Thanks
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