On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:
I'd like to reopen an issue we talked about earlier.
I'm having difficulties running PyLucene 2.4.0 (JCC 1.9, shared) on
Windows XP. I've put the "jcc.dll" file into the
PYTHON/Lib/site-packages/lucene/ directory, which seems to work, but
it's complaining that "The application has failed to start because
jvm.dll was not found."
I think that this is going to be a persistent problem on Windows.
Even though I have the Java "bin" directory on my path, the jvm.dll is
in "bin/client", and so is not found.
What I'd like to do is to have the following prologue inserted into
the lucene/__init__.py file. It adds the registry's current location
for jvm.dll to the end of the Path environment variable. This means
that a location explicitly specified by the user will override this
default value, but it also means that a location for the dll will
always be found, and reduce what I expect to be one of the most
troublesome errors using JCC PyLucene on Windows.
Yes, you have shown that this is possible before. I've also said before that
I'm a little unsure about putting this stuff in for everyone as I'm very
suspicious of registry-based hacks. What works for your setup may not work
for everyone else's setup. Others may then have very strange errors because
there is some 'well hidden' kludge in an __init__.py file messing with
people's PATH.
To me, messing with people's PATHs behind their backs very much sounds like
a no-no. Alarm bells go off. If it works for your setup, though, I don't see
any problem with you having this code in a piece of python that runs
_before_ the lucene module is imported. And it would appear to solve the
problem for your setup very well then.
Or am I missing something ?
Are there any actual Windows users (I'm not) on this list (besides Bill)
who have an opinion about this ?
Andi..
Bill
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import sys
if sys.platform == 'win32':
# figure out where the jvm.dll is, and make sure that location is on sys.path
import _winreg as wreg
registry = wreg.ConnectRegistry(None, wreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
key = wreg.OpenKey(registry, r"SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment")
v, t = wreg.QueryValueEx(key, "CurrentVersion")
key = wreg.OpenKey(registry, r"SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime
Environment\%s" % v)
javahome, t = wreg.QueryValueEx(key, "JavaHome")
registry.Close()
# if we have a javahome, make sure it's on the list
if javahome:
import os
location = os.path.join(javahome, "bin", "client")
os.environ['Path'] =
os.pathsep.join(os.environ['Path'].split(os.pathsep) + [location,])
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