Feedback - Online Quotes Install Fail

[John Ralls]

> On Dec 28, 2014, at 8:18 AM, nvsoar <nvsoar at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> On 12/24/2014 10:01 PM, nvsoar wrote:
>> Win7 HomePrem 64; sp1; GunCash 2.6.3 and 2.6.5; Clean install of Strawberry Perl v5.20.1
>> Install attempts using menu item 'Install online price retrieval'; terminal cpan Finance::Quote; perl gnu-fq-update
>> All fail in a cascade of 'vector.xs' lines.  The Stdout and Stderr text files are attached.
>> Also at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4ucx9tnbn1skzko/AAAq7qu5mgp5jC92PuXBMODDa?dl=0
>> Thank you for your assistance in sorting this out.
>> nvsoar
> Followed up John Ralls' response to the above and contacted Erik Colson.
> 
> His response - dll.exp should be generated by dlltool. I guess there might be something wrong in your path and either the script called a wrong compiler or dlltool.
> Please check your PATH and put all paths (especially bin) from your fresh strawberrry install at the beginning. then retry:
> cpan Bit::Vector
> Eric,
> 
> The result - short version - online quotes has been installed on the Win7 64 bit machine and works.
> Details - moved the three Strawberry paths to the beginning; ran cpan Bit::Vector and cpan Finance::Quote from the c:\strawberry\cpan directory.
> 
> Have three machines with gnucash installed, this Win7 64 bit with Strawberry v5.20, a Win7 32 bit with Strawberry v5.20 and a Win8.1 64 bit with Strawberry v5.18; all had the same Strawberry paths close to or at the end of the path; the last two worked fine.  All Strawberry installs are 32 bit; all have the same two dlltool files in the same locations.  Am still puzzled why this worked.  Thanks again.

Without access to your machine I can only speculate, of course, but it seems likely that somewhere in your path you have a program named dlltool that does something different from what CPAN needs.

Regards,
John Ralls