As the Windows-version of gnucash is gaining more and more attention, and as the pre-compiled binary is already shipped with aqbanking/gwenhywfar (with aqhbci and ofxdirectconnect), we are getting asked whether the HBCI chipcards would be supported as well. This requires a win32 version of libchipcard, which doesn't exist right now.
The good news is that *compiling* of libchipcard is possible on windows. Both the libchipcard svn-trunk [1] (obsolete, though) and the currently active branch aq_3 [2] can be compiled, the latter also from the release tarball libchipcard3-3.1.0beta [3]; trunk compiles only from current SVN, not from a release. I'd like to ask anyone interested to try out the libchipcard-on-windows version by obtaining one of these versions, especially if you actually own a chipcard reader (I don't). Then report any issue you have on the aqbanking-devel mailing list (either in German or in English, both is fine). As for libchipcard trunk vs. aq3-branch: The svn-trunk of libchipcard is abandoned since September 2006 anyway. All the real (interesting) ongoing work is done on the branches/aq_3 branch of libchipcard. That aq3 branch, however, requires gwenhywfar3 instead of gwenhywfar2 since January 2007. The previous gwenhywfar2 is currently still being used by gnucash+aqbanking. An upgrade of gnucash+aqbanking to gwenhywfar3 is not planned in the immediate future, rather by fall or end of this year, and it is not quite trivial. The question is whether gnucash+aqbanking2+gwenhywfar2 can be linked with libchipcard3+gwenhywfar3 in parallel. The two DLL names are different; however, the DLLs of gwenhywfar2 and gwenhywfar3 will clearly contain a bunch of symbols with identical names. It is not clear to me whether this will work on windows, or whether it will outright crash due to this symbol collision in the gnucash process namespace. On Linux this somehow seems to work, as we haven't received any related problem reports so far... or this rather says nobody has tried gnucash+aqbanking with libchipcard3-3.1.0beta but only older versions, like libchipcard3-3.0.2, which still uses gwenhywfar2... One compile-time issue still exists on windows in both branches: The current code shows approx. 20-30 warnings of type "passing arg 5 of 'FOO_BAR__INHERIT_SETDATA' from incompatible pointer type". These mean that the INHERIT_SETDATA function, which is in turn declared by a macro of gwenhywfar, expects a function pointer that has some special function decoration which changed in gwenhywfar-2.0.0 or similar, but libchipcard is not yet adapted. To fix this, the function whose pointer is passed to INHERIT_SETDATA must be declared as "void GWENHYWFAR_CB foobar(void*,void*);" instead of simply "void foobar(...);", i.e. you have to add that GWENHYWFAR_CB macro between void and foobar(). Cheers Christian [1] svn checkout http://aquamaniac.homelinux.net/svn/libchipcard/trunk [2] svn checkout http://aquamaniac.homelinux.net/svn/libchipcard/branches/aq_3 [3] http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=34542 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
