Re: Run F::Q from MSYS on XP?

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi Charles, Am Samstag, den 15.03.2008, 20:36 -0700 schrieb Charles Day: Does anyone know if I can run Finance::Quote from my Windows XP build environment? The install.sh script that runs on MSYS only installs perl 5.6.1, not 5.8. I do have ActivePerl 5.8 installed on my machine for use

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
I haven't done much work on Gnucash on Linux or Windows but I was able to get it to compile under Windows by following the instructions on this page: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows There are a few manual steps and then a script that downloads and installs a bunch of tools and

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 16.03.2008, 07:38 -0500 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack: I haven't done much work on Gnucash on Linux or Windows but I was able to get it to compile under Windows by following the instructions on this page: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows There are a few

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Andreas, I think we are getting somewhere Please take a look at http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2/packaging/win32 So I would want to get the compiler (and presumably including a link-editor) here? This is achieved by using the mingw32/gcc compiler

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 16.03.2008, 09:28 -0500 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack: Andreas, I think we are getting somewhere Please take a look at http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/branches/gda-dev2/packaging/win32 So I would want to get the compiler (and presumably

Re: testing the book zeroing code (maybe for backport?) Offline

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi Tim, Am Donnerstag, den 13.03.2008, 14:26 -0400 schrieb Tim Wunder: On Saturday 08 March 2008 07:13:31 pm Andreas Köhler wrote: Hi Tim, On Do, 2008-02-07 at 16:37 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: ---8--- Well, it's possible that GetBalanceAsOfDate goes forward in time instead of

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread karimb
Mike, You can download a copy of vim for windows from http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc I also like textpad which has syntax highlighting for source code files. -- Original message -- From: Mike or Penny Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andreas, I think we are

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Samstag, den 15.03.2008, 17:57 -0400 schrieb Karim B: Mike or Penny Novack wrote: Related to getting started. (now that my post fire life is more or less back to normal -- sorry for the long delay) I haven't ever done any work in the Windows environment before. Which means I

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Charles Day
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, You can download a copy of vim for windows from http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc I also like textpad which has syntax highlighting for source code files. MSYS comes with the non-GUI form of vim, I believe. I just type vi

Re: building gda-dev2 on windows XP Pro SP2

2008-03-16 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Thanks everybody (keep up with suggestions) I will probably want a C for Windows sort of book if such exists. Not how to program in general but how to interact with objects of type window. Any ideas? I have written some* C, but that was in a Linux environment and I wasn't (yet) interacting