On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Howard Butler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Brian Burke wrote:
>
>> Recap: I was having problems importing rtree because it was compiled under 
>> 64-bit and the libspatialindex.dll file was 32-bit.
>>
>> I loaded the 64-bit version of libspatialindex that Howard compiled.  Other 
>> than an error about a file named msvcp100.dll (which I don't think was 
>> related to my rtree issue and was resolved by installing this file), the new 
>> version ran great. Thanks for your help!!
>
> As Brian said, I have 64bit windows versions compiled via MSVC 2010.  I'm not 
> quite sure how to include them in our existing Rtree PyPI binaries, however. 
> What does Shapely do for 64bit builds?  Any ideas how to proceed here?
>

Shapely's installers ship a DLL that gets installed in
site-packages/shapely as geos.dll and then we instruct ctypes to find
it relative to shapely/geos.py. Jaakko makes sure that the right DLL
is in the right installer. It's got the same name whether 32 or 64
bit.

Are you working on Rtree at the sprint?

-- 
Sean Gillies
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