[pylucene-dev] Installing pylucene in Windows

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, e paditur wrote:

> I'm trying for the first time to run lucene and pylucene, and I need help.
>
> I built lucene-2.3.1 with ant, it was successful. Then I installed with
> easy_install the two latest binaries for Windows available at:
> http://code.google.com/p/pylucene-win32-binary/downloads/list
>
> I have Python 2.5.1 running.
>
> When I try to "import lucene", I first get a Windows message box error:
> Title: python.exe - Unable to locate component
> Message: This application has failed to start because jvm.dll was not found.

You need to make sure you have the required DLLs (in this case, the java 
runtime's) on your PATH environment variable. See [1] line 80.

Andi..

[1] http://svn.osafoundation.org/pylucene/trunk/jcc/jcc/INSTALL