[pyicu-dev] Problem installing PyICU on Cygwin

[Andi Vajda]

On Apr 9, 2008, at 13:51, Andi Vajda <vajda at osafoundation.org> wrote:

>
> On Apr 9, 2008, at 13:32, "Brian Quistorff" <bquistorff at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>      I'm having trouble using PyICU. I have Cygwin with the Python  
>> 2.5 module(s) installed on a WinXP machine. I downloaded ICU, built  
>> and installed the dll files w/o a problem. I then built PyICU  
>> (after a bit of fiddling) and installed it. However I'm having  
>> trouble loading the dll file. From a python shell I get:
>> >from PyICU import Locale
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >  File "<stdin>", Line 1, in <module>
>> >  File "PyICU.py", line 38, in <module>
>> >   from _PyICU import *
>> >ImportError: No such file or directory
>>
>> I tried moving PyICU.py and _PyICU.dll to my working directory but  
>> that didn't fix it. I saw that the installed egg file said the  
>> platform was UNKNOWN, so I tried changing it to both WIN and  
>> WINDOWS with no luck. FYI here's what I added to setup.py to get it  
>> to build on cygwin
>> >INCLUDES - ['/usr/local/include/']
>> >CFLAGS - []
>> >LFLAGS - []
>> >LIBRARIES - ['icuin', 'icuuc', 'icudt']
>>
>> and here's also the output while installing:
>> > python setup.py install
>> >/usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py:263: UserWarning: Unknown  
>> distribution option: 'test_suite'
>> >  warnings.warn(msg)
>> >running install
>> >running build
>> >running build_py
>> >running build_ext
>> >running install_lib
>> >running install_egg_info\
>> >Removing /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyICU-0.8.1-py2.5.egg-info
>> >Writing /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyICU-0.8.1-py2.5.egg-info
>>
>> I checked sys.path and it did include the directory where the egg  
>> (and the other files) where installed. Any idea what's the problem?  
>> I can provide more info if that's helpful.
>
> I have never used cygwin's python on windows. How about using the  
> 'regular' one instead ?

I should add that you can use that regular windows python on  
cygwinjust fine as long as you set your PATH right.

Andi..


> Andi..
>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brian
>>
>>
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