Re: [GNC] problems with Finance::Quote 1.49 and and gnucash Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on windows 10 64 bit

2020-03-14 Thread Mitch Hausman via gnucash-user
Gentlemen, I did try 32 bit strawberry perl in one of my many install scenarios because GnuCash is 32bit, and I considered both apps might need to be consistently storedthat probably got lost in the sauce of my long emailssorry about that... i'll try to keep this short today, I tried the

Re: [GNC] problems with Finance::Quote 1.49 and and gnucash Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on windows 10 64 bit

2020-03-13 Thread John Ralls
That shouldn't matter at all, we're not linking libperl. prices.scm popens perl to run gnc-fq-helper, hooking to its stdout to get scheme-formatted strings that prices.scm parses. Regards, John Ralls > On Mar 13, 2020, at 2:47 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > I would suspect the crash

Re: [GNC] problems with Finance::Quote 1.49 and and gnucash Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on windows 10 64 bit

2020-03-13 Thread David H
Ah forget that, I found your comment in that long email you sent Frank :-) Cheers David. On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 at 07:30, David H wrote: > Mitchell, > > You haven't explained what your issue was with trying to install it > originally as per the gnucash instructions - please clarify as this might

Re: [GNC] problems with Finance::Quote 1.49 and and gnucash Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on windows 10 64 bit

2020-03-13 Thread David H
Mitchell, You haven't explained what your issue was with trying to install it originally as per the gnucash instructions - please clarify as this might have a bearing on what you are experiencing as per your following emails. On Win 10 Pro you need to click the Windows Start Menu icon, then All

Re: [GNC] problems with Finance::Quote 1.49 and and gnucash Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on windows 10 64 bit

2020-03-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Mitch, please always answer to all or the list. I am no Windows user, so others might have better ideas. BTW the full quotes of websites are hard read. A few places with additional infos: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/tips.html Am

Re: [GNC] problems with Finance::Quote 1.49 and and gnucash Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on windows 10 64 bit

2020-03-12 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hello Mitchell, Am 09.03.20 um 19:35 schrieb Mitchell Hausman via gnucash-user: > > C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuCash\bin>cpan gnc-fq-dump while gnc-fq-dump is written in perl, it is not provided by cpan, but already installed as part of gnucash. So cpan is right here: >>(error): Skipping

[GNC] problems with Finance::Quote 1.49 and and gnucash Build ID: 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on windows 10 64 bit

2020-03-11 Thread Mitchell Hausman via gnucash-user
Hello, I'm testing GnuCash software on windows 10 64bit, to see if it is useful for me (as opposed to buying Quicken!) I wasn't able to install Finance::Quote successfully using this procedure: Microsoft Windows: ??? Close GnuCash. ??? Run Install Online Price Retrieval which can be found