[vtkusers] pythonwrap on windows

David Gobbi david.gobbi at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 10:32:58 EDT 2013


Hi Karl,

The file is named vtkRenderingPython.pyd (no dll extension).

  David

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Karl Loewenich
<karl.loewenich at vodafone.it> wrote:
> Dear Vtkusers,
>
> I am trying to compile vtk5.10.1 (for Release) on windows vista from source
> with visual c++ 2010 express with qt and python wrapping enabled.
> Vtk compiles without complaints.
>
>
> when I try to do
>
> vtkpython Cone2.py from the command line
>
> i get
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\vtkbinary\bin\Release\Cone2.py", line 15, in <module>
>     import vtk
>   File "C:\vtkbinary\Wrapping\Python\vtk\__init__.py", line 63, in <module>
>     __helper.refine_import_err('rendering', 'vtkRenderingPython', exc)
>   File "C:\vtkbinary\Wrapping\Python\vtk\__helper.py", line 32, in
> refine_import_err
>     raise LinkError, str(exc)
> LinkError: DLL load failed: Impossibile trovare la procedura specificata.
>
> if I understand it right from looking into the __init__.py file, python
> wants to load vtkRenderingPython.dll at this point. However this file does
> not exist
> in my ...vtkbinary/bin/Release  Directory where vtkpython.exe lives nor
> seems to exist in any other directory.. I see only vtkRenderingPythonD.dll ,
> vtkCommonPythonD.dll.... and the like.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help
>
> Karl



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