I've managed to get IDLE, Pythonwin, ERIC and SPE(My Favorite) to work with OSGeo4W before. It'll take me a day to dig up the material though.
It does indeed require setting the environment variables properly before you open the app. Here's my Pythonwin example http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/abt182/OSGeo4Wpythonwin.bat Enjoy, Alex On 12/15/2010 09:27 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > Thank you for the kind words Gilles. > > It's so easy to focus on the immediate problem and de-emphasize, by > omission, the gifts that enabled us to have the issue in the first place > (something I'm frequently quilty of. So it's good to be reminded :) > >> This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found. > > This should be installed as part of the msvcrt package in > %osgeo4w_root%\bin. Msvcrt package is a root package and should always > be there no matter what options are selected on install. You likely need > to set the environment with OSGeo4W.bat before calling pythonwin (or use > that batch file as a template for permanently setting the system > variables). > > >> I'm thinking of installing Python/IDLE separately but I'm not sure it >> will be able to find/use packages from the osgeo4w stack. > > From http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/114 there's a python script to > (de)register a python directory tree in the windows registry. It doesn't > work on 64 bit systems (patches welcome). After using register-python.py > you should be able to use the standard windows installers for any python > application not included in Osgeo4w. > > In my view this is a better route forward than packaging yet another > not-really-gis program into the osgeo4w mirror system. We already have > enough difficulty keeping the core packages up to date. :) > > cheers, > > matt wilkie > -------------------------------------------- > Geomatics Analyst > Information Management and Technology > Yukon Department of Environment > 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9 > 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax > http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/ > -------------------------------------------- > > On 15/12/2010 2:17 AM, Gilles Bassière wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to this list and before anything else I would like to thank the >> people behind OSGeo4W for their work. I believe it makes OSGeo projects >> much more accessible to common GIS users. >> >> For the purpose of a GIS programming lab, I'm trying to get up and >> running the following: Python, a Python IDE and several libraries >> (primarily GDAL/OGR and Mapnik but also Geopy). >> >> Regarding the IDE, I don't have specific requirements, I merely want to >> avoid using cmd.exe because this might frighten my students :) IDLE >> would be fine for example but I can't find it in the OSGeo4W components. >> >> I see that Pythonwin is present but I get this error when I launch it: >> This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found. >> I did try to re-install python-win32 but it doesn't help (my test >> platform is Windows XP within a VirtualBox). >> >> I'm thinking of installing Python/IDLE separately but I'm not sure it >> will be able to find/use packages from the osgeo4w stack. >> >> I'm looking for advices about the easiest way to get a Python GIS >> programming environment under Windows. >> >> Best regards _______________________________________________ osgeo4w-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev
