Hi Richard,
I'm glad you found something that works. I'm not enough of a Windows expert
to be able to provide an example of how to fix it, but here's what you need
to do:
When you activate a conda environment a bunch of stuff happens behind the
scenes, it's not generally sufficient to just call the corresponding
interpreter directly (as you've seen). So you really need to activate the
environment before invoking PyCharm. I would guess that the easiest way to
do this is to create a batch file that first does the environment execution
and then invokes PyCharm. That way you only have one command that you need
to execute.
A more "fixing the problem with a big hammer" solution, and probably not
something that would be recommended, would be to install the rdkit into the
root conda environment (i.e. do `conda install -c rdkit rdkit` without
activating an environment first. This should allow things to work directly.
-greg
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:10 PM, West, Richard <[email protected]>
wrote:
> We're having trouble getting RDKit to work in a PyCharm project using an
> Anaconda interpreter (Python 2.7), on Windows 8.1.
> Has anyone had success with this and can guide us?
> The trouble is we get an
>
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
>
> when trying to import rdkit (or rdBase).
>
> We have tried many variations of the following, but here is a basic recipe
> of what does/doesn't work:
> 1. Make a new conda environment (called 'eg1'), install rdkit ('conda
> install -c rdkit rdkit')
> 2. From a cmd.exe prompt, use this environment ('activate eg1') load
> python ('python') and import rdkit ('import rdkit') it works fine.
> 3. From PyCharm, create a Project Interpreter (pointing to
> 'C:\Anaconda2\envs\eg1\python.exe'), and use this to run a script or
> create a new Python Console in which you 'import rdkit', leading to the
> "DLL load failed" message.
> 4. We have tried manually adding a bunch of things to the "Interpreter
> Paths" in PyCharm, but without success (perhaps we just didn't add the
> right thing).
>
>
> ----
>
> Update: just before I hit "send" on this request for help, we stumbled
> across this posting of the same problem, and solution, from Christian
> Ribeaud:
> https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/
> community/posts/115000244450-DLL-load-failed
>
> It seems that if we open cmd.exe, activate the environment, and then
> launch PyCharm exe from there, it works.
> I'm sharing this here because it took us a while to find the other post,
> but also to ask: is there a "better" way?
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
>
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