I was getting the same "126" error on a windows 64 box. Only solution I found
was a fresh install of everything..including python 2.7 for 32...along with
shapely, proj, etc.
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On Apr 9, 2014, at 6:53 AM, "Harasty, Daniel J" <dhara...@appcomsci.com> wrote:
> I’m also still stumped by a geos.dll loading problem, which I haven’t been
> able to resolve.
>
> I repost this now (originally sent last summer, but got no replies) since Ari
> Simmons is having some sort of geos.dll loading problem.
>
> Our problems may or may not be related, as his post did not mention Apache
> WSGI.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
>
> From: Harasty, Daniel J
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 11:03 AM
> To: 'community@lists.gispython.org'
> Subject: trouble with Shapely in Apache under WSGI
>
> I realize that – strictly speaking – this is probably not a bug in Shapely,
> but I would appreciate any advice.
>
> I’d like to use Shapely in this environment:
>
> · In a Python script implementing a WSGI application
> · Deployed on Windows behind Apache httpd 2.x
>
> Alas, I get this error logged by Apache:
>
> · WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found
>
> The traceback reveals a problem loading the “geos_c.dll”:
>
> File "C:\\Python\\Python26\\lib\\site-packages\\shapely\\geos.py", line 76,
> in <module>
> _lgeos = CDLL("geos_c.dll") # DJH
> File "C:\\Python\\Python26\\lib\\ctypes\\__init__.py", line 354, in __init__
> self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
>
> This is thrown immediately upon “import shapely.wkb”, or any other Shapely
> library that imports shapely.geos.
>
> This has the smell of some sort of “path problem”, but I have fiddled with
> every possible PATH and PYTHONPATH setting both inside and outside of Apache.
>
> I can repeat this in a diminutive app (not only my larger application), which
> shows that even loading nothing else, I can trip this error. I’d be willing
> to post/share my sample code and fragment from my Apache conf… but you’d have
> to already have some familiarity with Apache and Python WSGI on Windows for
> it to mean much.
>
> Note that calling similar script (using Shapely) as a CGI (behind Apache)
> work fine. So this sounds like a DLL loading problem peculiar to
> Windows+Apache+mod_wsgi. (Not a Shapely or geos_c.dll bug, per se.)
> However, none of my other Python+WSGI+Window+Apache scripts are having the
> same problem.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Harasty
> dhara...@appcomsci.com
>
>
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