Gnucash 2.7 on Windows

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 18, 2017, at 2:05 PM, Catscrash <catscrash at catscrash.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have crashes with 2.7 as well, but with Linux. I compiled
> successfully, but are not able to start the new version.
> 
> ./gnucash
> Notice
> 
> Your gnucash metadata has been migrated.
> 
> Old location: /home/catscrash/.gnucash
> New location: /home/catscrash/.local/share/GnuCash
> 
> If you no longer intend to run GnuCash 2.6.x or older on this system you
> can safely remove the old directory.
> **
> gnc.gui:ERROR:gnc-main-window.c:3631:gnc_main_window_setup_window:
> assertion failed: (filename)
> [1]    32604 abort (core dumped)  ./gnucash
> 
> 
> make check runs successfully.
> 

The assert is because
filename = gnc_filepath_locate_ui_file("gnc-main-window-ui.xml");
returned NULL.

Are you trying to run GnuCash without installing it? That in general doesn’t work.

Regards,
John Ralls