On Saturday 27 November 2010, Ian X Waddington wrote: > HI, whilst this is a fascinating discussion and I am sure useful for future > development could I ask we get back on topic and help me find out why my > installation of GnuCash simply crashes out when trying to save-as MySQL. > > Either no one has 2.3.17 working with MySQL 5.1.53 on a Windows 7 32bit > machine because there is a bug, or there is something wrong with my install > or how I am going about it. > The major problem in solving this issue is that none of the developers has a copy of Windows 7 available for debugging. So they have to go hunting based on the little information they get from the bug reports.
With the reports I have seen so far, it looks as if libdbi is not compatible with Windows 7. libdbi is the external code library GnuCash uses to connect to mysql. But as I said, this is based only on the reports, I nor any other dev has had the opportunity to debug it on Windows 7 directly. > Either way it shouldn't crash so I will report it as a bug. > Please do. Can you add a link in your report to this bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624465 It seems to be the same problem, but on a 64bit version of Windows 7. > Any pointers appreciated, just a small clue would help :-) > I'm afraid I don't have any right now to get you up and running with mysql. Sorry. Do you really *have* to use mysql ? The xml backend should be quite stable. If mysql is not a must for your setup, I would recommend to use xml. I haven't seen any reports so far of connecting to postgresql (an alternative open source database) on Windows 7, neither success reports or failure reports. If you need a database, you may try if the postgresql integration works any better. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
