I opened an issue on BinDeps a long time ago suggesting a less broken `ext.jl` file for packages using BinDeps: https://github.com/JuliaLang/BinDeps.jl/issues/77
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > Good call Miles, that does make things easier to figure out for users. > > I was able to reproduce the problem with Requests/GnuTLS on Windows XP (look > what you made me do), it turns out to be pretty obscure and not an easy fix. > Quoting from > http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201404/msg00002.html, the > problem appears to be: > >> There is also an issue with the libp11-kit0-0.20.1 library provided by >> OpenSUSE folks. It uses the function strerror_s from MSVCRT.dll, but >> this symbol is not exported by the Windows XP MSVCRT (it is running fine >> on Windows 7). > > > Here's a screenshot from Dependency Walker that I used to figure this out: > http://i.imgur.com/HgjLVyZ.png > > You could try using the HTTPClient package (now that my pull request fixing > binary dependencies for LibCURL.jl on Windows was merged), or maybe in > GnuTLS/deps/build.jl you can uncomment the provides(Binaries, ...) line. > You'll need to update the version number there to 3.2.12, they seem to have > cleaned out older versions. You also need to manually create > GnuTLS/deps/usr, and move the extracted bin folder from the binary download > into it. > > > On Saturday, May 3, 2014 8:17:04 AM UTC-7, Miles Lubin wrote: >> >> Relatedly, I think it's bad practice to simply put >> include("../deps/deps.jl") in the module, because this gives a meaningless >> error message to the user when the file doesn't exist. In Gurobi.jl, for >> example, we have: >> >> if isfile(joinpath(Pkg.dir("Gurobi"),"deps","deps.jl")) >> include("../deps/deps.jl") >> else >> error("Gurobi not properly installed. Please run >> Pkg.build(\"Gurobi\")") >> end >> >> >> On Saturday, May 3, 2014 11:06:37 AM UTC-4, Tony Kelman wrote: >>> >>> Do those deps.jl files exist? What happens if you do Pkg.build("GnuTLS") >>> or Pkg.build("Cairo") ? >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, May 3, 2014 3:16:30 AM UTC-7, joanenric barcelo wrote: >>>> >>>> I cannot use Requests package in Win XP. I get the following message: >>>> >>>> OpenBLAS : Your OS does not support AVX instructions. OpenBLAS is using >>>> Nehalem >>>> kernels as a fallback, which may give poorer performance. >>>> _ >>>> _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing >>>> (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org >>>> _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics >>>> | | | | | | |/ _` | | >>>> | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+2809 (2014-04-28 >>>> 22:41 UTC) >>>> _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit d1095bb* (4 days old master) >>>> |__/ | i686-w64-mingw32 >>>> >>>> julia> using Requests >>>> ERROR: could not open file C:\Documents and >>>> Settings\user\.julia\v0.3\GnuTLS >>>> \src\../deps/deps.jl >>>> in include at boot.jl:244 >>>> in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128 >>>> in include at boot.jl:244 >>>> in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128 >>>> in reload_path at loading.jl:152 >>>> in _require at loading.jl:67 >>>> in require at loading.jl:54 >>>> in include at boot.jl:244 >>>> in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128 >>>> in reload_path at loading.jl:152 >>>> in _require at loading.jl:67 >>>> in require at loading.jl:51 >>>> while loading C:\Documents and >>>> Settings\user\.julia\v0.3\GnuTLS\src\GnuTLS.j >>>> l, in expression starting on line 6 >>>> while loading C:\Documents and >>>> Settings\user\.julia\v0.3\Requests\src\Reques >>>> ts.jl, in expression starting on line 8 >>>> >>>> julia> >>>> >>>> I am having similar issues with other packages such as Winston, see >>>> below >>>> >>>> OpenBLAS : Your OS does not support AVX instructions. OpenBLAS is using >>>> Nehalem >>>> kernels as a fallback, which may give poorer performance. >>>> _ >>>> _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing >>>> (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org >>>> _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics >>>> | | | | | | |/ _` | | >>>> | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+2809 (2014-04-28 >>>> 22:41 UTC) >>>> _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit d1095bb* (4 days old master) >>>> |__/ | i686-w64-mingw32 >>>> >>>> julia> using Winston >>>> ERROR: could not open file C:\Documents and >>>> Settings\user\.julia\v0.3\Cairo\ >>>> src\../deps/deps.jl >>>> in include at boot.jl:244 >>>> in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128 >>>> in include at boot.jl:244 >>>> in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128 >>>> in reload_path at loading.jl:152 >>>> in _require at loading.jl:67 >>>> in require at loading.jl:54 >>>> in include at boot.jl:244 >>>> in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128 >>>> in reload_path at loading.jl:152 >>>> in _require at loading.jl:67 >>>> in require at loading.jl:51 >>>> while loading C:\Documents and >>>> Settings\user\.julia\v0.3\Cairo\src\Cairo.jl, >>>> in expression starting on line 3 >>>> while loading C:\Documents and >>>> Settings\user\.julia\v0.3\Winston\src\Winston >>>> .jl, in expression starting on line 3 >>>> >>>> julia> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Anyone with the same problem or able to point me to a possible solution? >>>> Thanks a lot! >>>> >>>> >
