Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Erik Colson]

On 30 Jun 2014, at 20:31, Richard Lindgren <richard_lindgren at outlook.com> wrote:

> This is getting real crazy! I have basically removed everything from my computer and re-installed Windows 7 again. 
> I then installed Strawberry 5.20. Then I went into command Prompt and installed from Cpan, Finance::Quote 1.35. I rebooted and then installed GnuCash 2.6.3 Now I go into the utility of GnuCash for the retieval of stock prices as the system Administrator and it comes back with this statement: Did not find ssleay32.dll in current directory.
> Please start this cmd file in the bin directory created by the setup.exe. I have no idea how to do this. I'm LOST! Please help me.
> Richard

Hi Richard,

Does it help if I say you’re almost there ?
I’m pretty convinced I should dig into Gnucash way of installing and calling Finance::Quote, but can’t do that any time soon…

Back to ssleay32.dll.

Since you got Finance::Quote 1.35 installed and loading, I presume Crypt::SSLeay to be installed correctly.
You can check it with

    perl -MCrypt::SSLeay -e"print $Crypt::SSLeay::VERSION"

which should return 0.72.

If your system returns the same then there should be no problem using Finance::Quote with Yahoo.
Except maybe if GNUCash itself checks for the presence of the module ? I think there’s no reason to do so. Any GNUCash dev who can check this out ?

best
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erik colson