Re: [Matplotlib-users] Building Basemap on Windows

[Christoph G. <cg...@uc...>]

On 8/30/2012 2:25 AM, klo uo wrote:
> So I forked then cloned huge Basemap repository with idea to test latest code
>
> README file says it needs geos library, which README suggest:
>
>    nmake /f makefile.vc MSVC_VER=1500
>
> However, error is inevitable almost always and this time Google
> suggests that MS does not support C-99 (can't find inttypes.h).
> Easiest solution is to copy these:
> https://code.google.com/p/msinttypes include files in affected include
> folder and change line `#include <inttypes.h>` in platform.h to
> `#include "inttypes.h"` so it picks it up from current folder
>
> That was it, geos compiled and products ended in src subfolder
> relative to geos folder:
>
>    inlines.obj
>    geos.lib
>    geos_i.exp
>    geos_i.lib
>    geos.dll.manifest
>    geos.pdb
>    geos.ilk
>    geos.dll
>    geos_c_i.exp
>    geos_c_i.lib
>    geos_c.dll.manifest
>    geos_c.pdb
>    geos_c.ilk
>    geos_c.dll
>
> Now, Basemap setup has *nix scenario for GEOS_DIR so I changed setup.py to:
>
>    geos_include_dirs=["C:\\Temp\\basemap\\GEOS-3~1.3\\capi","C:\\Temp\\basemap\\GEOS-3~1.3\\include",numpy.get_include()]
>    geos_library_dirs=["C:\\Temp\\basemap\\GEOS-3~1.3\\src"]
>
> after I learned that `python setup.py build" fails if Basemap source
> is in path with spaces
>
> Still no luck, and thought to ask for kind help:
>
<snip>
>
>    LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'geos_c.lib'
>
>    error: Command "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\VC\BIN\link.exe /DLL /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO
>        /LIBPATH:C:\Temp\basemap\GEOS-3~1.3\src
> /LIBPATH:C:\Python27\libs /LIBPATH:C:\Python27\PCbuild geos_c.lib
> geos.lib
>        /EXPORT:init_geoslib
> build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src/_geoslib.obj
> /OUT:build\lib.win32-2.7\_geoslib.pyd
>        /IMPLIB:build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src\_geoslib.lib
> /MANIFESTFILE:build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\src\_geoslib.pyd.manifest"
>        failed with exit status 1181
>

Try to remove 'geos_c' from the list of libraries in setup.py. Works for me.

-                                libraries=['geos_c','geos']))
+                                libraries=['geos']))

Christoph