Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython 6.02 with buttons, sliders, and new event handling capabilities

[Thomas S. <to...@fe...>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:08 AM, boy...@gm...
<boy...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Continuing from my earlier question, I have now installed all dependancies
> using a combination of homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew), pip and
> good-old python setup.py  installing…
>
> Things seem to build fine, but I have a linking problem with boost. My boost
> includes and library files live in the usual places /usr/local/include and
> /usr/local/lib (well symlinks managed by homebrew).
>
> Any ideas on how to tell the install script the location of boost?
>
> I have edited the site.cfg to read,
>
> [build_ext]
> include-dirs=/usr/local/include
> library-dirs=/usr/local/lib
>
> The list lines of the error reads,
>
> ---
> -L/usr/local/lib -lboost_python -lboost_signals -o
> build/lib.macosx-10.8-x86_64-2.7/visual_common/cvisual.so
> ld: library not found for -lboost_python
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
> invocation)
> error: command 'c++' failed with exit status 1
> ---
>
> Any ideas?

Looking into the right library directory seems to work. Are you sure,
there is a libboost_python.so in there? It might also be that there is
only a libboost_python-mt.so, so you need to link against that and
change the "-lboost_python" to "-lboost_python-mt".

Greetings,
   Tom

> Best wishes,
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
>
> On 13 Feb 2013, at 14:39, Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...> wrote:
>
> Be sure to read the file OSX.txt in the tarball, which includes instructions
> on how to build the Boost libraries that you'll need.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Scott Harris <sc...@fl...>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'll give that a try. I do have vPython 6 running now with an "official"
>> 2.7.3 python.
>>
>> I appreciate your efforts quite a bit! I've used VTK and wxPython heavily
>> in the last, and it's great to be able ti integrate wx and VPython!
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> Scott Harris
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>> On Feb 12, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> (I should mention that Adam Hausknecht's problem had nothing to do with
>> VPython. The Tk package is broken on the Mac; for a fix, see
>> http://www.python.org/getit/mac/tcltk/.)
>>
>> You could try building from source, because Steve Spicklemire has made
>> this quite easy to do, except that you may have difficulties dealing with
>> installing all the dependencies (wxPython 2.9.4, numpy, FontTools, ttfquery,
>> Polygon). Get the source "tarball" from the Linux download page at
>> vpython.org, unpack, and in a terminal cd to the source code, then execute
>> "sudo python2.7 setup.py install".
>>
>> Bruce Sherwood
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Scott Harris <sc...@fl...>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I too use EPD. On my machine, the VPython installer doesn't detect EPD
>>> and won't install. I'm on OS X 10.8.2
>>>
>>> This is my python:
>>>
>>> Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) free version -- www.enthought.com
>>> Version: 7.3-2 (32-bit)
>>> (type 'upgrade' or see www.enthought.com/epd/upgrade to get the full EPD)
>>>
>>> Python 2.7.3 |EPD_free 7.3-2 (32-bit)| (default, Apr 12 2012, 11:28:34)
>>> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
>>> Type "credits", "demo" or "enthought" for more information.
>>>
>>>
>>> Getting VPython to work with EPD would be great.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Scott
>>> Scott Harris
>>> sc...@fl...
>>> 37 Doe Trail POB 1278
>>> Nederland CO 80466-1278
>>> 720/231-6533 (cell)
>>> 303/258-0142 (office)
>>>
>>>
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