[reportlab-users] reportlab fail installing on Windows 7 x64 with Python 2.6 x64 (easy_install)

[Sorin Sbarnea]

> We do NOT plan to adopt setuptools, but we hope to make it so you can

> 'easy_install reportlab'.

Thanks for clarifying this - not lets go back to the build issues of
reportlab because I think anyone would benefit from a reportlab that
is easy to build.

Latest release of code does give this errors when you try setup.py
build (and you have right settings in setup.cfg):
C:\dev\pj\kit\py\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\renderPM\_renderPM.c(1885)

: warning C4244: '=' : conversion from '__int64' to 'long', possible

loss of data
c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0\VC\BIN\amd64\link.exe /DLL /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO
"/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\lib"
/LIBPATH:C:\Python26\libs /LIBPATH:C:\Python26\PCbuild\amd64
/LIBPATH:build\temp.win-amd64-2.6 freetype.lib _renderPM_libart.lib
_renderPM_gt1.lib /EXPORT:init_renderPM
build\temp.win-amd64-2.6\Release\dev\pj\kit\py\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\renderPM\_renderPM.obj
/OUT:build\lib.win-amd64-2.6\_renderPM.pyd
/IMPLIB:build\temp.win-amd64-2.6\Release\dev\pj\kit\py\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\renderPM\_renderPM.lib
/MANIFESTFILE:build\temp.win-amd64-2.6\Release\dev\pj\kit\py\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\renderPM\_renderPM.pyd.manifest
   Creating library
build\temp.win-amd64-2.6\Release\dev\pj\kit\py\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\renderPM\_renderPM.lib
and object build\temp.win-amd64-2.6\Release\dev\pj\kit\py\ReportLab_2_3\src\rl_addons\renderPM\_renderPM.exp
_renderPM.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
__imp_FT_New_Memory_Face referenced in function _get_ft_face
_renderPM.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
__imp_FT_Init_FreeType referenced in function _get_ft_face
_renderPM.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
__imp_FT_Done_Face referenced in function py_FT_font_dealloc
_renderPM.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
__imp_FT_Outline_Decompose referenced in function
_ft_get_glyph_outline
_renderPM.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
__imp_FT_Load_Glyph referenced in function _ft_get_glyph_outline
_renderPM.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
__imp_FT_Get_Char_Index referenced in function _ft_get_glyph_outline
build\lib.win-amd64-2.6\_renderPM.pyd : fatal error LNK1120: 6
unresolved externals
error: command '"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0\VC\BIN\amd64\link.exe"' failed with exit status 1120

I checked and the symbols are inside the lib and I found an
wordaround: you go to .\src\rl_addons\renderPM\ where you run
"setup.py build" => in this case it does not complain at all.

Now you copy the library _renderPM.pyd from
.\src\rl_addons\renderPM\build\lib.win-amd64-2.6 to
.\build\lib.win-amd64-2.6 and you can run the "setup.py build" again
and "setup.py install".

After this reportlab is installed and running very well (at least the tests).

Now my question would be: why does this happen and how can we repair
this build issue?

--
/sorin