Hi Wayne, Thanks for this reply, it helps a lot. I believe that the pcbnew .a file was built and I placed this in the standard python 2.7 lib directory along with the .pyd file.
I'll start having a look at this again soon so that we can work out what to do regarding python scripting on Windows builds. Best Regards, Brian. On 2 November 2012 13:52, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/2/2012 6:21 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > >> On 31 October 2012 06:16, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Brian, I'm not sure how dependent is wxPython on Cairo, if it's >> recommended as '0' but they enable it, >> may by it's needed. But it's just a feeling, 0-knowledge. >> >> Do you have some branch for this that I could replicate and play >> around to figure out what's happening? >> or it's tested manually at the moment? >> >> Also a binary package (with some debug info) could do the trick for me >> >> I'd like to trace that wxpython init call down, and find where does >> it stop (and why). >> >> Thanks a lot for your effort, >> >> Mike, >> >> >> Hi Mike, >> I had to stop looking at the build for a while, but I should get another >> chance to look at it earlier next week. It would seem that we need to >> compile Python with MinGW, and wxPython. >> >> I had a quick look at the source for Inkscape and they have a separate >> repository which includes a pre-built python for Windows which gets >> included with their installer. They do not have it as a build process >> for building Inkscape though, only as a separate pre-built binary: >> https://launchpad.net/**inkscape-devlibs<https://launchpad.net/inkscape-devlibs> >> >> I suspect this may have to be the route that KiCad goes down in order to >> package the new scripting functionality. At least it means that we can >> totally control the python version on Windows. >> >> I don't have a branch, but maybe I should create one. It is likely there >> will have to be changes in order to build scripting support for Windows. >> Even the find_package( stuff uses the registry (yuck!) entries to >> discover where python is located and this will always be wrong because >> we are using MinGW to build the KiCad binaries, not MSVC which the >> standard python install is built with. >> >> Best Regards, Brian. >> > > Brian, > > I wanted to respond to this a few days ago but I had a system hard drive > failure and I've spent all week recovering my development system. You > shouldn't have to build Python and wxPython from source with MinGW to get > this to work. The MinGW version of GCC can link to MSVC libraries. You > have to create the library link file using pexports which is an optional > part of MinGW. The instructions on how to do this can be found here: > http://www.mingw.org/wiki/**MSVC_and_MinGW_DLLs<http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSVC_and_MinGW_DLLs>. > I've created Python libraries this way so I know this works. I would > think as long as you are using the same version of wxPython and wxWidgets > you should be OK. The tricky part may be making sure to include all of the > library dependencies for wxWidgets, wxPython, and Python the installer. I > assuming that you would want to just include a stand alone copy of Python > similar to the bazaar windows installer rather than download and install > Python and have the user deal with path issues. I plan on trying to build > the KiCad python scripting from source over the next few days. If I manage > do discover anything useful, I will pass that information along to you. > > Wayne > > > >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~kicad-**developers<https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> >> Post to : >> kicad-developers@lists.**launchpad.net<[email protected]> >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~kicad-**developers<https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> >> More help : >> https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~kicad-**developers<https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : > kicad-developers@lists.**launchpad.net<[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~kicad-**developers<https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >
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