Re: GnuCash support for alternative/non-ISO currencies

Well, I decided to make GnuCash treat the bitcoin like a regular currency myself. I downloaded the source code and modified two files, iso-4217-currencies.scm and iso-4217-currencies.c, both in '/gnucash-2.4.7.1b/src/engine/'. To the former I added the following lines:

Code:

;; non-standard/private - Not ISO4217, but we designate it as such so that Gnucash will treat it as such.

( "Bitcoin" "bitcoin" "satoshi" "ISO4217" "BTC" "nil" 100000000 100000000 "BTC" ) ;; Would have used XBC as the mnemonic to conform with ISO4217, but it appears to have been taken.

( "Ithaca HOUR" "hour" "hour" "ISO4217" "IHR" "nil" 6 10 "" )

";;" indicates a comment.

To the latter I added:

Code:

{
const char *fullname = "Bitcoin";
gnc_commodity *c = gnc_commodity_new(book,
CUR_I18N(fullname),
"ISO4217",
"BTC",
"nil",
100000000);

if(!c) {
PWARN("failed to create commodity for currency %s", fullname);
} else {
if(!gnc_commodity_table_insert(table, c)) {
PWARN("failed to insert %s into commodity table", fullname);
}
}
}

{
const char *fullname = "Ithaca HOUR";
gnc_commodity *c = gnc_commodity_new(book,
CUR_I18N(fullname),
"ISO4217",
"IHR",
"nil",
10);

if(!c) {
PWARN("failed to create commodity for currency %s", fullname);
} else {
if(!gnc_commodity_table_insert(table, c)) {
PWARN("failed to insert %s into commodity table", fullname);
}
}

Although I'm not sure if I needed to do so.

I also made sure to add the following lines to '/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_4217.xml':

Code:

Then, I compiled GnuCash:

Code:

sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
sudo sh configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash
sudo make
sudo make install

That puts an executable here: /opt/gnucash/bin/gnucash

Ta da!

Keep in mind that I started with GnuCash 2.4.7 and that I am running it on Ubuntu 11.04. YMMV.