I want to learn how to customize reports

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 19 February 2015 08:29:59 David Christopher wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that looks good.

> 
> 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.

If you don't need it, you're safer to just remove it again. The interactive guile shell in cygwin 
is the same as what I had you set up directly in the command window.

If there are version mismatches between guile in cygwin and guile as used by gnucash, *and* 
cygwin registers itself in the global windows PATH, you may see unexpected behaviour in 
gnucash.

Geert

> 
> 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.
> > > 
> > > 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"" .