Inline, with [BB] -----Original Message----- From: Derek Atkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:15 AM To: Christian Stimming Cc: Brian Blatnik; gnucash-devel mailing list Subject: Re: Compiling GnuCash on Windows
Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to hear whether these things work, in case you have some time > to check them in detail: > - Creating a new file (with default account hierarchy) This doesn't work for me. I do File -> New File and I get an empty window. It doesn't pop up the druid or anything. [BB] Works for me, as long as "Perform account list setup on new file" is checked in Preferences --> General (default is unchecked) > - Creating more accounts in that file This works. [BB] Works for me too > - Adding transactions to these accounts [BB] Works > - running reports, particularly "account summary", "income statement", > "balance sheet" [BB] All three crash > - Changing some preferences (are these preserved when shutting down > (without > crashing) and starting again?) [BB] Works I haven't tried any of these. >> Also, in the command prompt window is the following: >> >> gnucash: [E] "Failed to fork child process." > > This is probably because gnucash tries to save the file in compressed > form, which requires a separate gzip process that won't work on > windows. In short, in the preferences please uncheck the checkbox > under General -> File -> Compress file. Does saving work, then? I wonder if we should just disable this feature on win32? [BB] Unchecked is the default, so that wasn't the problem. Still crashes on Save -derek [BB] Let me know if the backtraces would help you immensely and I'll try to install gdb. Thanks, Brian -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel