Thanks for flagging the wiki problem (and to Jelle for fixing).
As others have said, the manual build is not too bad, and is definitely your
way
forward. Can I ask a favour? Once you get pythonOCC running on Ubuntu, could
you
add your knowledge to the wiki. I'd like to have a detailed list for each
distribution, even if it mainly says 'see manual install'.
Arthur
Stephen Waterbury wrote:
> Thanks, Arthur -- it looks like the wiki needs to be revised: in the
> "Install Linux" section, the Debian and Ubuntu paragraph has an Ubuntu
> link that points to the Ubuntu packages for opencascade 6.2-7 -- this
> is apparently unhelpful. (This is a typical problem for open source
> projects -- outdated links -- but I'm surprised that this problem would
> be found on the PythonOCC project, since it is so young!)
>
> It appears that Ubuntu is behind on OpenCascade -- I don't see any
> packages of 6.3 for Intrepid. I guess the recommendation would be to
> compile OpenCascade from source in this case?
>
> Steve
>
> Arthur Magill wrote:
>> Ah, there we have a problem, I think. You have installed OCC 6.2.7, but
>> Thomas
>> is wrapping OCC 6.3. I think that will do something odd. I'm not certain
>> (Jelle,
>> Thomas?), but I think you need to manually install OCC 6.3. Is there
>> something
>> like an unstable branch of Ubuntu that might have a more up-to-date version
>> of OCC?
>>
>> Arthur
>>
>> Stephen Waterbury wrote:
>>> Okay, I'll stick with setup.py for now. :)
>>>
>>> I did set the OCC directories, as I was trying to follow the
>>> hints supplied on the wiki -- I installed the Ubuntu OCC packages:
>>>
>>> # dpkg -l | grep opencascade
>>> ii libopencascade-dev 6.2-7ubuntu1
>>> OpenCASCADE CAE platform library
>>> development
>>> ii libopencascade6.2 6.2-7ubuntu1
>>> OpenCASCADE CAE platform shared library
>>> ii opencascade-doc 6.2-7ubuntu1
>>> OpenCASCADE CAE platform library
>>> development
>>> ii opencascade-examples 6.2-7ubuntu1
>>> OpenCASCADE CAE platform library
>>> input examp
>>> ii opencascade-tools 6.2-7ubuntu1
>>> OpenCASCADE CAE platform tools
>>>
>>> ... and dpkg -L showed that OCC_INC should be '/usr/include' and
>>> OCC_LIB should be '/usr/lib'.
>>>
>>> I've attached the output of setup.py.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> Jelle Feringa wrote:
>>>> scons is very much WIP, setup.py is well polished.
>>>> perhaps you're OCC directory is not set correctly in enviroment.py
>>>> ( look for OC_INC / OCC_LIB )
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> -jelle
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 30, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Stephen Waterbury wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've tried both the setup.py and scons methods, and both fail.
>>>>> Is there currently a recommendation as to which one is better?
>>>>> If so, I'll send the error messages I got from the preferred
>>>>> method. :)
>>
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