Great news actually! Did you move the 'SWIG' directory to another name?
If you want to contribute your changes, you can:
- post here your patch
- open an issue on github
- become a pythonocc collaborator (in the sens of github) so that you can
create your own branches.
Thomas
2011/8/18 Frank Conradie <fr...@qfin.net>
> Great news - I now have a working 64bit version of pythonocc 0.5 for
> Python 2.6 (64bit) on Windows!
>
> I would like to do the same for the trunk version, and would then like to
> contribute these changes. What is the best way to go about this?
>
> - Frank
>
>
> On 18/08/2011 12:50 PM, Thomas Paviot wrote:
>
> 2011/8/18 Frank Conradie <fr...@qfin.net>
>
>> Hi Thomas
>>
>> I made some progress on this in the last hour or so:
>>
>> 1. sys.platform is still "win32", even for 64 bit Python.
>>
>
> Funny!
>
>
>>
>> 2. The sys.maxint check does not work on Windows - it returns the 32 bit
>> max, even though I am definitely using Python 2.6 64bit.
>>
>
> I didn't know about that. I thought the maxint was 2^63-1 when python is
> compiled in 64bit mode.
>
>
>> I have found other references to this on some messageboards. The suggested
>> way to work around this is to check the 1st value returned by
>> "platform.architecture()", which returns ('64bit', 'WindowsPE').
>>
>
> Very interesting, I will move to this function. I tested that it returns
> '32bit' for OSX/python2.5 and '64bit' for OSX/python2.6. Thanks.
>
>
>> 3. To link with the 64bit versions of the OCC libs, I made this change:
>> if sys.platform=='win32':
>> OCC_LIB = os.path.join(OCC_ROOT,'win%d'%bits,'lib')
>>
>
> Ok. This has to be properly handled.
>
>
>>
>> 4. I added the 64 bit flags, as you also suggested in your email:
>> if bits==64:
>> DEFINE_MACROS.append(('_OCC64',None))
>> SWIG_OPTS.append('-D_OCC64')
>>
>> However, I currently get this error:
>>
>> C:\Python\pythonocc-0.5\src\wrapper\Visualization\Visualization.i(25) :
>> Error: Unable to find '..\1\ExceptionCatcher.i'
>> error: command 'swig.exe' failed with exit status 1
>>
>
> Strange, line 25 of Visualization.i should be:
>
> %include ../SWIG/ExceptionCatcher.i
>
>
>
>
>
>> Any idea where this could stem from?
>>
>
> Absolutely not. What about the other modules?
>
>
>>
>> - Frank
>>
>
> Thomas
>
>
>>
>> On 18/08/2011 12:12 PM, Thomas Paviot wrote:
>>
>> 2011/8/18 Frank Conradie <fr...@qfin.net>
>>
>>> I am wondering if anyone has tried to build pythonocc for 64bit Python on
>>> Win64? Looking at environment.py. there is no special case code for 64 bit
>>> builds on Windows yet, although there is for Linux and MacOS.
>>>
>>> - Frank
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> There's not any Win64 specific code because I did not have the opportunity
>> to have a Win64 machine to test pythonocc with this platform. However I do
>> think that the 64bit code for linux/darwin could be used as is for Win64.
>>
>> The script environment.py first detects whether or not python is 64 bit
>> (by querying sys.maxint). After that, according to the result (32 or 64bit),
>> environment.py decides to set -D_OCC64 as a compiler define. That's all. If
>> you just append ('_OCC64',None) to the DEFINE_MACROS list, you should have
>> pythonocc compiled properly under Win64.
>>
>> Just a question: under Win32, sys.platform returns the 'win32' string. Is
>> 'win64' returned under win64?
>>
>> I will create a branch named tp/win64-support (don't know if you're
>> familiar with git). I will notify you when it's done so that you can test
>> building pythonocc from github (https://github.com/tpaviot/pythonocc). I
>> don't know if there are speficic things to be aware of when dealing with
>> python and windows in 64 bit mode, feel free to send any suggestion.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
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