[GNC] Finance::Quote on Windows

[Adam Baker]

I am having trouble getting Finance::Quote to work on Windows (GnuCash 3.8;
64-bit Windows 10). I had it working sometime in the last couple of months,
but it has stopped working for some reason.

Specifically: 1) stock prices do not update; 2) in “Price Database” the
“Get Quotes” button is grayed out; 3) in “Security Editor” when I open a
stock it has the error, “Warning: Finance::Quote not installed properly.”

I have run the “Install Online Price Retrieval for GnuCash” utility
(several times), and it always ends with “Installation succeeded” — and no
errors before that.

I'm able to get stock quotes from the command line:

C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>echo (alphavantage "AMZN") | perl -w
gnc-fq-helper
(("AMZN" (symbol . "AMZN") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2020-01-17 12:00:00") (last
. #e1864.7200) (currency . "USD")))

The trace files do seem to have a a perl-related warning:

* 12:00:58  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
child process (Bad file descriptor)
* 12:00:58 ERROR <gnc.app-utils> gnc_process_get_fd: assertion 'proc' failed
* 12:00:58 ERROR <gnc.app-utils> gnc_detach_process: assertion 'proc &&
proc->pid' failed

perl is available on the command line, however.

I've googled all of these error messages, and haven't found anything that
seemed relevant. I'd appreciate any pointers about how to move forward.

Thanks,
Adam