[GNC] W11 5.13 crashes on reconcile

Paul Kinzelman paul at kinzelman.com
Fri Oct 24 16:47:39 EDT 2025


I have no idea, and I don't know what mingw32 is and there is no directory
     c:\mingw32
on my laptop here. And I don't think it's ever been installed on
this system, haven't done any W32 development for years.

I think we should declare victory and move on. :-)

On 10/24/2025 2:11 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> Huh. I wonder where
>
>> sys._base_executable = 'c:\\mingw32/bin/python'
>> sys.base_prefix = 'D:\\a\\msys64\\mingw32'
> came from then. It would be c:\gcdev64\msys2\mingw32 on my system or any other set up with the script from gnucash-on-windows.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>> On Oct 24, 2025, at 10:02 AM, Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't seem to have ming (or w64) installed and it sounds like getting a stack trace would be difficult.
>>
>> But I installed the 2024-10-24 build and the crash does not happen (whereas it
>> was repeatable every time before) so it looks like that one works, and the
>> stack trace is now a moot point.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> On 10/24/2025 10:39 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> If you already have Mingw64 installed then use its gdb. Trying to use the one I packaged is going to have conflicts with your installed Mingw.
>>>
>>> There are symbols for GnuCash and the libraries we build (AQBanking, OFX, Guile) but not the ones that Mingw provides.
>>>
>>> But no, it’s not useful to get a stack trace if a recent nightly shows that the problem is already fixed. Please try the nightly build.



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