[omniORB] _omnipy load problem

[charles bartlett]

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 15:19 +0000, Duncan Grisby wrote:
> On Saturday 29 December, charles bartlett wrote:
> 
> > Attempting to run echo example.
> > 
> > Unzipped omniORBpy-3.1-x86-win32-python2.5.zip and
> > omniORB-4.1.1-x86-win32-vc8.zip to windows box with python 2.5.1 loaded.
> > 
> > in python, attempt: "import omniORB"
> > 
> > error message - "import _omnipy
> > ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found."
> > 
> > sys.path includes the directory containing _omnipy; the error message is
> > misleading - _omnipy is apparently found but can't be read.
> 
> To use omniORBpy, you _just_ need omniORBpy-3.1-x86-win32-python2.5.zip
> You should not use the omniORB 4.1.1 distribution at all. If you do
> install it, you must put it somewhere unrelated and make sure it is not
> on your path.
> 
> It sounds like you need to put the omniORBpy binary directory on your
> path. Add ...\omniORBpy-3.1\bin\x86_win32 to your path. The _omnipy
> module is linked against the omniORB library, and that's what can't be
> found.
> 
Problem corrected! I thought the path mod was only needed to run
omniidl.
BTW, I did not need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and that appears to apply to
Unix anyway.
BTW, I simply added a omniorb.pth file to c:\python25, rather than mod
PYTHONPATH, containing lib/python and lib/$FARCH. Now, in python: import
sys; sys.path to verify they are there. Only mention for those 
from __future__.

> You are right that the error message is misleading, but it's a message
> from Python itself, so omniORBpy can't do anything about it.
> 
Agreed.
> > Noted <many> similar problems reported in mail; fix answers refer to
> > incompatible versions of omniORB and python; in my case, should not be
> > incompatible.
> 
> The similar problem that other people have is that they get conflicts
> when running omniidl. That is due to mixing bits of the omniORB binary
> distribution with bits of the omniORBpy distribution. The omniORB
> distribution contains a minimal version of Python 1.5.2 which conflicts
> with newer versions when used with omniORBpy.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Duncan.
> 

Thanks a lot for your support!