> On Jul 27, 2015, at 12:59 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 27, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> I have given it a try and it partially fixes the problem. Gnucash now builds 
>> OK but it still failed on startup. Just to make sure I created a setup.exe 
>> from the dist script and installed that which failed initially because it 
>> could not find the lib_boost_date.dll, these were in the lib directory but 
>> when I moved them to the bin directory Gnucash found the files and failed 
>> the same as from the build directory.
>> 
>> Just to make sure it was not my XP build VM, I used the setup.exe on another 
>> XP VM and when I had moved the boost dll files, it started up just fine.
>> 
>> Comparing the two, the one that worked had Time Zone 'GMT London' with DST 
>> ticked and the one that fails has 'GMT Monrovia/Reykjavik', swapping between 
>> the two allows it to run or fail.
>> 
> 
> Darn. I knew about putting the libs in the wrong place but forgot to commit 
> the fix. Done now.
> 
> Ah, Liberia and Iceland are places that have the good sense not to use 
> daylight time so the registry entry has 0 values for the transition times, 
> and I’m not handling that correctly on Win32. Should be a straightforward fix.


Robert,

I just tested today’s nightly build in XP with the TZ set for 
Monrovia/Reykjavic and it started up without errors.

Regards,
John Ralls


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