[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Installing Python Bindings on Windows
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 11:39:05 +0200
On 05/04/2017 03:08 PM, Jake Kyle wrote:
Hello,
I have been trying to install the Python bindings on my Windows machine
but have had no success. Please can somebody give me some directions?
The instructions in the python/README file are not working for me as
they stand.
What is not working?
I read in this post from 2009 that the first step for Windows is to use
autotools in order to obtain the __init__.py file which is needed by
setup.py:
https://www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/Problems-with-Python-bindings-on-Win32,1
I presume that autotools uses the __init__.py.in (note the extra “in”
extension) file, that comes with the downloaded liblouis package located
in the python/louis directory, to generate this?
Yes it does. `Make` will insert the correct so name in the `setup.py`
file. It uses sed for that. There was a discussion on the motivation for
this by James Teh on the mailing list way back.
I have tried this by installing MinGW on my machine in order to use
autotools but have had no success generating the __init__.py file.
What is the exact problem?
If you use the tar ball from
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases you should only need a
bash afaik to run the configure script.
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