[reportlab-users] build _renderPM extension

[Robin Becker]

On 19/06/2013 12:39, Joancarles Casasín wrote:

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> Running test_renderPM.py gives this traceback:

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> ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/_renderPM.so, 2): Symbol not found: _FT_Done_Face

>    Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/_renderPM.so

>    Expected in: flat namespace

>   in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/_renderPM.so

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> reportlab/tests/runAll.py only gives 'Failed to import renderPM' error.

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Hi Joancarles,

the above symbol relates to freetype support. It seems to indicate that 
_renderPM.so was built with freetype support in some way, but that at runtime it 
cannot find the symbol that it needs.

I don't know if you saw errors during the build. last time I tried this stuff on 
a mac it nearly drove me mad. Whatever else is good about macs the internal 
software architecture is just gothic and awful.

You may get better results asking about this stuff on the mac python list(s) or 
try using buildout.
-hating fat binaries-ly yours-
Robin Becker