I want to learn how to customize reports

[David Christopher]

I had Cygwin downloaded and installed and the Guile package installed also
and was trying to figure out how to use it when I got the next few messages
that said to use the command prompt and type in those two lines.

I had to modify them to this for them to work
SET GUILE_LOAD_PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\gnucash\share\guile\1.8

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%"\gnucash\bin\guile.exe

Then I went to the tutorial site and typed in items as directed.

I attach a screen shot of the results.  Looks like it works.

Since there is only one user account on my computer right now, should I
uninstall Cygwin64 from the computer?  I do not need it for anything right
now as far as I can tell.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

>  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.
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> >
>
> > Indeed, gnucash uses guile. So you probably want to work with that
>
> > because each implementation speaks a different dialect.
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> >
>
> > The downside is that guile is not a windows native package. So when
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> > you install gnucash it works well from within gnucash, but it's less
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> > obvious how to use it independently of gnucash.
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> >
>
> > Here is one way you could do it:
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> >
>
> > - Open a command prompt (cmd.exe)
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> > - Type
>
> > SET GUILE_LOAD_PATH=%ProgramFiles%\gnucash\share\guile\1.8
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> > %ProgramFiles%\gnucash\bin\guile.exe
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>
>
> Eh sorry, that second command needs quotes:
>
> "%ProgramFiles%"\gnucash\bin\guile.exe
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>
>
> Geert
>
>
>
> >
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> > The first command makes sure guile finds all of its modules, the
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> > second will start an interactive guile session.
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> >
>
> > > I think you should better try to install cygwin and then install
>
> > > guile for it, using it's package management feature.
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> >
>
> > Be careful with installing gnucash and cygwin under the same user
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> > account. From past reports it looks like this is a recipe for crashes
>
> > in gnucash.
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> >
>
> > If you want to go the cygwin route, please install it under a separate
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> > user account on your pc, and make sure it doesn't install for all
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> > users.
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> >
>
> > > As an alternative you can run Ubuntu in virtual maching (virtual box
>
> > > for example)
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> >
>
> > That would also be an option.
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> >
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> > Good luck,
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> >
>
> > Geert
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> >
>
> > > 2015-02-19 14:52 GMT+03:00 David Christopher <chrstdvd at gmail.com>:
>
> > > > I have been studying the process on this page:
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> > > > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports
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> > > >
>
> > > > The first thing I run into is that I have to learn Scheme. So off
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> > > > to this page:
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> > > > http://www.scheme.com/tspl2d/start.html#g1546 where I am told I
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> > > > need
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> > > > a ""interactive
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> > > > Scheme system"" .
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> > > >
>
> > > > I goggled that and got to this page:
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> > > >
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> > > > ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_81
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> > > > .h
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> > > > tml#SEC87
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> > > >
>
> > > > That page tells me I need RScheme. I goggled that finally
>
> > > > downloaded this. rs-0.7.3.4-b7.tar.gz
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> > > >
>
> > > > I used 7 Zip to unpack that and now have a folder in my downloads
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> > > > "rs-0.7.3.4-b7.tar" and I can use 7 Zip to open that and see the
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> > > > files in there.
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> > > >
>
> > > > What do I do with those files and folders? How do I install
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> > > > RScheme.?
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> > > >
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> > > > Is there someplace I can go to get an exe file to install?
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> > > >
>
> > > > Is that even what I need for a Windows 7 64x system? If not what
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> > > > do
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> > > > I need to follow the tutorials on scheme.?
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> > > >
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> > > > I did download and install this mit-scheme-9.2-i386-win32 but I
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> > > > can
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> > > > not figure out what to do with it and was not sure it is what I
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> > > > need so I uninstalled it.
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> > > >
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> > > > I am off to a rocky start. Hahaha!
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> > > >
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> > > > Thanks
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