Re: Building wxPython-4.0.4 on Mint 19.1 64 bit

On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 12:27:46 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
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> I rebuilt python with --enable-shared and the wxPython build is now past 
> the point where it failed.
>
> Thank you for the suggestion.
>
> On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 1:24:50 PM UTC-4, Robin Dunn wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 9:14:34 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> I have successfully built wxPython-4.0.4 on the Raspberry Pi and Mint 
>>> 19.1 32 bit but I am running into an error when I build on Mint 19.1 64 bit.
>>>
>>> I am building using python 3.7.2 built form source
>>>
>>
>>
>> Did you use the --enable-shared configure option when building Python?
>>
>
> No, I assumed that was the default.
>
>
>> What command line are you using to do the wxPython build?
>>
>
> ./configure --enable optimizations
>


I asked about your command-line for building wxPython, not Python.
 

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>
>> Where is your wxPython source coming from? (The source tarball from PyPI? 
>> A checkout or archive created from GitHub?)
>>
>
> source from:
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> Python source from 
> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.2/Python-3.7.2.tgz
>

Same here.

 

> If I try to build using the python 3.6 as supplied in the distribution I 
>>> get the following error building waf:
>>>
>>>  
>>
>>> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
>>> 'sip/cpp/_core.sbf'
>>>
>>
>>
>> This file is included in the PyPI source tarball, but since it is a 
>> generated file it is not checked in to git. If you're using wxPython source 
>> code from GitHub then you'll need to run extra steps to generate the 
>> missing files. 
>>
>
> This error came from using the version of python that came with the 
> distribution.  I guess this version will not work for building wxPython. 
>

It should. The error message indicates that either you're using source from 
git that hasn't yet had the generated files created, or that something has 
happened to your local source tree.

--
Robin

 

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