[tahoe-dev] Newbie installation notes

[Kill Your TV]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 00:36:12 +0000 (UTC)
David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:

> > 1. On Ubuntu, 'python setup.py build' fails unless the python-dev
> > package is installed.  
> 
> This happens when it needs to compile a dependency written in C/C++,
> because there is no binary "egg" for that dependency. Can you tell
> which dependency it tried to compile (usually there will be messages
> from gcc)?

I've seen it with pycryptopp (http://pastebin.com/uwS25EJw) and Twisted

twisted/runner/portmap.c:10:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
  twisted/runner/portmap.c:14: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
  twisted/runner/portmap.c:31: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
  twisted/runner/portmap.c:45: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘PortmapMethods’
  twisted/runner/portmap.c: In function ‘initportmap’:
  twisted/runner/portmap.c:55: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘Py_InitModule’
  twisted/runner/portmap.c:55: error: ‘PortmapMethods’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  twisted/runner/portmap.c:55: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  twisted/runner/portmap.c:55: error: for each function it appears in.)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "setup.py", line 417, in 
        **setup_args
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 113, in setup
          _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
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