GnuCash under Windows

[Fred Bone]

On 7 Jan 2008 at 13:47, Graeme Nichols said:

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> The version of perl I have installed is from Activestate Ver 5.10.0, 
> Binary Build 1001, Dec. 18, 2007.
> 
> I have looked through install-fq-mods.bat and it seems to my extremely 
> limited knowledge of .bat files that it is looking for a specific 
> version of perl. Is that correct?

Yes. Specifically, 5.8.anything or 5.6.anything.

> On the ActiveState web site there are two different versions of perl 
> available for Windows x86, 5.10.0.1001 and 5.8.8.822.
> 
> Which version should I install?

The latter. FWIW, I have 5.8.8.820.

Alternatively, you can get it to accept 5.10 by inserting these lines 
into the BAT file ahead of the line starting "perl -e":

set _haveperl58=1
goto ccp

This bypasses the test. I have no idea what will happen later on if 5.10 
proves incompatible: you're on your own.

It would probably be more helpful if the error message from the BAT file 
were to mention the currently-acceptable version(s) of Perl.