[Paraview] Python Error in Python Shell

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey Mike,

On my system both the libvtkCommonPython.so and  
libvtkCommonPythonD.dylib both end up in the build/bin directory, like  
any other plugin or library, in case that helps.

-Eric

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Eric E Monson
Duke Visualization Technology Group



On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Mike Jackson wrote:

> I found the "D" section of the Python cmake code and it seems to be  
> hard coded in there. So you are probably correct, it doesn't stand  
> for "Debug".
>
> I guess I need to track down where the libvtkCommonPython.so is  
> created to see if I can tie into that cmake code to create shell  
> scripts that will copy and update those as plugins. Any ideas where  
> those targets are created?
>
> -- 
> Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
> Innovative Management & Technology Services
>
>
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Berk Geveci wrote:
>
>> The .so is the plugin module. It links against the .dylib which the
>> plugin links against. You need both. I am not sure what the D stands
>> for but it is not debug. Dynamic maybe.
>>
>> On 2/27/08, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am working on a new packaging shell script for OS X and I am
>>> getting the following error when I attempt to run the Python Shell:
>>>
>>>
>>> Python 2.3.5 (#1, Jan 13 2006, 20:13:11)
>>> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
>>>>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>>>   File "/Users/Shared/Toolkits/ParaView3/bin/paraview.app/Contents/
>>> SharedSupport/paraview/__init__.py", line 40, in ?
>>>     from libvtkPVServerCommonPython import *
>>> ImportError: No module named libvtkPVServerCommonPython
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> Taking a look around I see that ParaView is linked against
>>> libvtkPVServerCommonPythonD.dylib. There is also a
>>> libvtkPVServerCommonPython.so library. Is that a plugin that I am
>>> missing maybe?
>>>
>>> Also, not sure of the naming convention, but I did a Release build
>>> but I still have libvtkPVServerManagerPythonD,
>>> libvtkPVServerCommonPythonD, libvtkCommonPythonD as dylibs. I would
>>> think those names would be missing the "D" at the end of the name.
>>>
>>> Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Jackson
>>> imikejackson & gmail * com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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