Re: [PyWX] Installation problems

[Titus B. <ti...@ca...>]

-> First of all it's great to see that this project seems
-> to be reviving. I'm really excited to have a go using
-> PyWX to script aolserver. I have to admit I find Tcl a
-> bit painful at times.

;)

-> I'm trying to install the latest beta of PyWX on
-> aolserver 3.4.2 with Python 2.2, on Mandrake 8.2
-> 
-> I'm follwing David Kuhlmans instructions. Configure
-> seems to go OK but there are some differences in the
-> Makefile that is created compared to the one that
-> David describes. Instead a PYTHONDIR I have two
-> undefined  variables PYINCL and PYLIBS . 
-> 
-> I've tried a number of different settings for these
-> two. 
-> 
-> For example i set:
-> 
-> PYINCL = /usr/include/python2.2
-> PYLIBS = /usr/lib/python2.2
-> 
-> PYINCL is all the Python header files and PYLIBS is
-> the Python install directory.
-> 
-> This doesn't work. If I leave PYINCL and PYLIBS
-> undefined then make complains that Python.h can't be
-> found.
-> 
-> Does anyone have any good ideas?

So, these settings should be generated by 'configure', or failing
that you can try using _generate_pyincl.py and _generate_pylibs.py.
Of course, it sounds like those are failing...

What you want in PYINCL is the whole C argument for including the
Python header directory, e.g.

	-I /usr/include/python2.2

Similarly, for PYLIBS, you want something like

	 -L /usr/local/lib/python2.2/config -lpython2.2 -ldl \
	 -lpthread -lutil -lm

I tried to write something to pick them out of the Python config
settings, but it sounds like it isn't working -- could you give
me the output of running python on _generate_pyincl.py and
_generate_pylibs.py?

The HOWTO should be updated before the next release, I guess.

tnx,
--titus