[pyicu-dev] Problem installing PyICU on Cygwin

[Steven R. Loomis]

Did you build ICU with Cygwin or with MSVC?  I'm not quite clear on the 
actual error here, but you might want to take a hard look at the DLLs 
and see if they are named/installed correctly.  Are they icuucXX.dll 
where it is looking for libicuuc-X.X.dll, for instance?

-steven ( ICU Project )


Andi Vajda wrote:
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> On Apr 9, 2008, at 13:51, Andi Vajda <vajda at osafoundation.org 
> <mailto:vajda at osafoundation.org>> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 9, 2008, at 13:32, "Brian Quistorff" <bquistorff at gmail.com 
>> <mailto: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..
>
>