[vtkusers] Install question (can't seem to load vtkCommonPython.dll)

[Nathan Heazlett]

I ran the install script here: C:\Program Files\vtk42\Wrapping\Python
And vtkCommonPython.dll is located here: C:\Program Files\vtk42\bin

The install script seems to have copied a bunch of .py files into here:
C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\vtk_python
(which is also in my PYTHONPATH)

Is it possible that using Python 2.3 is causing problems? I have tried to
run vtkpython, and it complained about not being able to find python21.dll.

The README.txt has this to say:

    (3) Installation via distutils to a directory different from the
    VTK_ROOT directory.  The file VTK_ROOT/Wrapping/Python/setup.py is
    a distutils script that should install VTK-Python correctly.  It
    should work under *nix, Win32 and possibly other platforms.

Which is what I thought I did. An alternate approach would be:

      Similar to the Unix approach, set your PATH to point to the
      directory that contains the VTK DLL's and the PYTHONPATH to the
      directory that contains the Wrapping/Python directory and the
      DLL's.  Note that under Win32 the directory containing the DLL's
      is in a sub-directory of LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH.  The sub-directory
      is one of Release, Debug, MinSizeRel or RelWithDebInfo.

Which doesn't seem to work either.

.nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Prabhu Ramachandran [mailto:prabhu_r at users.sourceforge.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 1:04 AM
To: Nathan Heazlett
Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Install question (can't seem to load
vtkCommonPython.dll)

>>>>> "NH" == Nathan Heazlett <nheazlett at breakawaygames.com> writes:

[...]
    NH> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not
    NH> be found.

    NH> I have the path where vtkCommon.dll is located in my PATH
    NH> environment variable. I also put it in my PYTHONPATH as
    NH> well. Do I need to use a different version of Python?

Did you build the Python wrappers?  Where is vtkCommonPython.dll
located?  You might also want to read the Wrapping/Python/README.txt.
 
cheers,
prabhu