I have not gotten it to work under win32 due to the lack of a really good perl.
I have a really good Python, however, and was wondering if anyone thought it would be a good idea to use it instead of Python for price quotes. Thoughts? -JOn ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for the wonderful software. > > Has anyone tried the live price quote in GnuCash win32? Does it work? > > I have compiled GnuCash win32 successfully according to the wiki. To > enable the live price quote, I have run gnc-fq-update successfully. To run > gnc-fq-update successfully, I have installed Activeperl 5.8 separately. > The activeperl 5.6 that comes with msys-DTK cannot complete gnc-fq-update, > because it will give the compilation error below: > > cc1.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-fnative-struct" > > > After running gnc-fq-update with Activeperl 5.8, I can run gnc-fq-dump and > gnc-fq-helper at shell to get quote without problem. But when I come to > Add New Security Editor screen > <http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-guide/figures/invest_newsecuri > ty.png>, the Quote Source Information check box is disabled, and the label > "Warning: Finance::Quote is not installed properly" is displayed. What's > wrong? > > > When I exit from Gnucash, I also get this in the command prompt: > > gnucash: [E] "Failed to fork child process." > > And Chris Shoemaker posted in < > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16609.html> that > it is related to price-quote retrieval and guile in win32. > > Does this mean Finance::Quote fail to load in GnuCash because of guile > problem? > Does this mean live price quote won't work at all in GnuCash win32? Any > way out? > > > Thank you. > > cheers, > zhimin > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
