[GNC] gnu-fq-check missing

[John Ralls]

I figured out the problem with boost::process's codecvt: It doesn't like empty strings and if there's no alphavantage key set we were trying to set the ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY environment variable with an empty string. I've fixed that, it will be in 4.904 which I'll proceed to release; if nothing goes wrong that will be later today (well, today if you're in America. I might not make it for Eurpeans and it's already tomorrow in the far east.)

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Mar 14, 2023, at 9:02 AM, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> Neither the quick fix nor a more involved attempt worked. Boost::process is a bit opaque but what it's telling us is that somewhere it wants codecvt to convert some string from char to wchar_t. I'm having difficulty figuring out where.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
>> On Mar 13, 2023, at 2:58 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> Urk, looks like a problem with converting a string to wchar_t for Windows, we didn't set up codecvt in gnc-quotes.cpp. I can reproduce it here, trying a quick fix.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>>> On Mar 13, 2023, at 2:12 PM, rolf.hoefner at gmail.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> wow.. never expected such a quick and personalized answer.. Thx!
>>> I'm using now the unstable release 4.902. 
>>> I followed your instructions, but after trying gnucash-cli -Q info, I get the following error:
>>> "Failed to initialize Finance::Quote: boost::process codecvt to wchar_t: error"
>>> Within Gnucash app, still not able to use it..
>>> Thanks again, John!
>>> BR,
>>> Rolf
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 12:15 PM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 12, 2023, at 5:37 PM, rolf.hoefner at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi, I've been trying hard to be able to run "Install Online Price
>>>> Retrieval", and I almost made it.. but I got this.. and it's right..
>>>> there's no gnu-fq-check program in bin.. how can I get it? I think I'm
>>>> almost there..
>>> 
>>> That depends on the version of GnuCash. If it's a 4.90x beta gnc-fq-check, gnc-fq-helper, and gnc-fq-dump have been replaced with finance-quote-wrapper and their function is now in gnucash-cli. We neglected to modify the Install Online Price Retrieval tool to reflect that. The two calls to gnc-fq-check and gnc-fq-helper in install-fq-mods.cmd are final checks to make sure everything succeeded, so you probably are done. You can run c:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli -Q info and …\gnucash-cli -Q dump alphavantage AMZN to test it.
>>> 
>>> OTOH if you're using a production release of GnuCash then gnc-fq-check should be in C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin and since install-fq-mods.cmd is in that directory too it should have found it.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>> 
>>> 
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