[vtkusers] Python wrapping problem PYTHON_DEBUG_LIBRARY -> solved....kind of

[Berk Geveci]

As far as I know, on Windows, you can't build a debug VTK with Python.
Reasons being (I only tried this with Python 2.1 and 1.5):
1. The debug python library and executable have to be used,
2. The debug python executable requires all libraries (modules) it
imports to end with a d (for example vtkCommonPythond.dll)
3. Current VTK build does not support this because it requires that
the libraries are named differently depending on whether they are built
release or debug. CMake can not do it yet.

Solutions:
1. Someone can add this feature to CMake,
2. Someone tells us how to compile a debug python executable which
does not require the d at the end of the imported library name,
3. Somebody realizes that I don't know what I am talking about and
tells us how it is really done.

-Berk

 
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 16:11, anast.jm at pg.com wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to build vtk4 with Python2.2 wrappings under WinNT and had
> problems with the cmake setting PYTHON_DEBUG_LIBRARY. Apparently since I was
> trying to build a debug version of vtk, cmake (the build really I guess) was
> looking for the debug version of Python library, which doesn't come with the
> release binaries of Python. I tried ot force the path to blank, and also tried
> pointing it to the release Python library but this doesn't work (appends an _D
> to the file name, which it now can't find).
> 
> When the lightbulb went on, I switched to the release build of vtk and then all
> went well....
> 
> Apparently if you want to build the debug version of vtk, you'll need to build
> the debug version of Python too. I hope this is not true but so far I've not
> figured a way around this....anyone have any ideas?? I didn't really wan to get
> into build Python too.
> 
> ....john
> 
> John Anast, PhD
> Winton Hill Imaging Lab
> The Procter & Gamble Co
> Cincinnati, OH, USA
> 
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