[vtkusers] Re: Troubles building VTK

[WolfgangZillig]

Posted out of a previous entry of this list:

The reason is that since 2.5-th version Python doesn't consider *.dll 
files as packages, only looking for *.pyd. I finally had found that by 
myself, but thought it can be worthy of reporting. Simple renaming of 
vtk*Python.dll (not vtk*PythonD.dll) files into *.pyd shall fix the problem.

Regards
Wolfgang




Andrea Gavana schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
>    I have downloaded VTK from CVS, and followed the instructions here:
> 
> http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/VTK_Building_VTK
> 
> I will be using the Python wrapper for VTK. After building with VS
> 2003, I tried the following:
> 
> Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit 
> (Intel)] on win
> 32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import vtk
> 
> And I got (surprise!):
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\vtk\__init__.py", line 36, in <module>
>    from common import *
>  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\vtk\common.py", line 9, in <module>
>    from vtkCommonPython import *
> ImportError: No module named vtkCommonPython
> 
> Uhm, well, vtkCommonPython *is* there, I see the dll. I have tried
> re-building 3 times (and it is a *very* long process), always with the
> same result.
> 
> My configuration:
> 
> - Windows XP;
> - Python 2.5;
> - VTK CVS (2 days ago);
> - CMake 2.4 (Patch 5)
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Thank you for every suggestion and pointer...
> 
> Andrea.
> 
> "Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
> http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/
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