Some issues with "/usr/lib/" and "/lib/" and wx

[marco atzeri]

On 6/15/2012 4:37 PM, matt_bali@mac.hush.com wrote:
>> If it is a native (doesn't require cygwin1.dll) then yes, wx won't
>> be able to read the Cygwin POSIX paths.
>
> I compiled wx it under Cygwin
> wx libraries are are in /usr/local/lib/
>
> Everything works as expected, only some programs won't start because of this issue, or throw error about missing resource file if file is located beneath /usr/lib/

eventually you build a partially hybrid application

On cygwin
/usr/lib is a mount of /lib
so a pure cygwin program will see no difference between

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/filesave.png
/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/filesave.png

> Please see this output from python interpreter:
>
> ========================================
> $ python
> Python 2.6.8 (unknown, Jun  9 2012, 11:30:32)
> [GCC 4.5.3] on cygwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import wx
>>>> wx.Image.CanRead('/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/filesave.png')
> True
>>>> wximg = wx.Image('/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/filesave.png', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY)
> 14:36:44: Error: Can't load image from file '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/filesave.png': file does not exist.
>>>>
> ========================================
>
> Only wx has this issue for some reason
>

have you tried using Yaakov wx libraries ?

http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/

Regards
Marco




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