[GNC-dev] How to get Report Development Environment Working in Windows

[flywire]

John, presumably you mentioned a guile instance because it's more efficient
than the technique I asked about to reload reports without restarting
GnuCash. That doesn't bring up a Win10 guile instance:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash>type guile-env.bat
@ echo off
REM
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2021-September/045942.html
set GUILE_LOAD_PATH="c:\Program Files
(x86)\gnucash\share\guile\2.2;c:\Program Files
(x86)\gnucash\share\guile\site\2.2"
set GUILE__COMPILED_LOAD_PATH="c:\Program Files
(x86)\gnucash\lib\guile\2.2\ccache;c:\Program Files
(x86)\gnucash\lib\guile\2.2\site-ccache"
path = "c:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin";%PATH%
C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash>guile-env

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash>guile
Uncaught exception:
Throw to key misc-error with args ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to find
file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Cannot exit gracefully when init
is in progress; aborting.

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash>dir /b
accelerator-map
books
checks
config-user.scm
custom_import.scm
custom_import_renderer.scm
document-renderer.scm
expressions-2.0
gnucash-4.6
gnucash-4.6.tar
guile-env.bat
my-world.scm
prototype-loader.scm
prototype-renderer.scm
prototype.scm
prototype_loader.scm
saved-reports-2.8
saved-reports-2.8-backup
stylesheets-2.0
test00.scm
transaction.scm
translog
trep-engine.scm


On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 10:48 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On Sep 2, 2021, at 4:55 PM, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to use
> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Development_Environment in
> > Win10. The Technique to reload reports without restarting GnuCash is not
> > working and I think the main problem is not following:
> >
> >> Finally, you should also extract a GnuCash source tar ball in
> > ~/GnuCash/CustomReport/ to have access to the Scheme files referenced in
> > this page.
> >
> > Does this mean extract the contents of gnucash-4.6.setup.exe
> > under %USERPROFILE%/GnuCash/CustomReport? Which files are actually needed
> > where (required path of one file as an example would be good)?
>
> Not exactly. A source tarball is an archive of the sources made with the
> Unix `tar` program; we distribute two variants, gnucash-4.6.tar.bz2 and
> gnucash-4.6.tar.gz; the trailing extensions indicate the compression method
> used.
>
> It looks like much of that page dates from GnuCash 2.6 that used an
> earlier version of Guile than we use now. You don't really need that
> though. What you need is to set up two environment variables,
> $Env:GUILE_LOAD_PATH and $Env:GUILE_COMPILED_LOAD_PATH:
>
> (Assuming Powershell)
> $Env:GUILE_LOAD_PATH="c:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\share\guile\2.2;c:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\share\guile\site\2.2"
> $Env:GUILE__COMPILED_LOAD_PATH="c:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\lib\guile\2.2\ccache;c:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\lib\guile\2.2\site-ccache"
>
> Also adjust your path to include "c:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin"
>
> With that setup a guile instance run from that shell should be able to
> find all of the modules it needs. Note that none of this is needed for
> GnuCash to execute your config-user.scm as it sets up the paths for itself.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>