build from source fails

[keithbriggs]

I did python3 setup.py build, but then python3 setup.py install fails on this step:
Running Rtree-0.9.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-_ns3zuje/Rtree-0.9.4/egg-dist-tmp-xpt3goi2

AttributeError: python3: undefined symbol: Error_GetLastErrorNum

This is on an up-to-date Ubuntu 18 system.

[danieljfarrell]

Try

sudo apt-get install libspatialindex

RTree wraps this library, it needs to be in place on the system before for the install to work.

I'll update the docs with a build from source section.

[keithbriggs]

kbriggs> sudo apt-get install libspatialindex

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libspatialindex

[keithbriggs]

Should be:

sudo apt-get install libspatialindex-dev

[danieljfarrell]

Thanks for coming back to report that, will help when I update the docs.

[keithbriggs]

Thanks - it's all built now, but I can't run it because there are some python 3.7 dependencies, and I have 3.6.9 :(

[danieljfarrell]

Did you try making an virtual environment on Python 3.7.

I've tested this on Linux using Conda. After you have installed conda,

conda create --name pvtrace-env python=3.7.8
conda activate pvtrace-env
conda install Rtree
pip install pvtrace

It installs from pip rather than source.

But you could download the source and use

pip install -e .

From inside the pvtrace directory (ie the one that contains setup.py)

This would be a little like creating a development environment.

[keithbriggs]

I didn't try a virtual environment - I don't like the concept as it does things I can't see. Does the second way ("pip install -e .") avoid Conda?

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[danieljfarrell]

No all that pip install -e . does is tell pip to install the python package described by the setup.py file in the named directory, rather then to search and download from PyPI. In your case that would still be system python which is the wrong version.

[keithbriggs]

Thanks - I found that I did have python 3.7.5 on my system (python3 was 3.6), and sudo python3.7 setup.py install worked. However, now I get:

kbriggs@Dell:~> python3.7
Python 3.7.5 (default, Nov 7 2019, 10:50:52)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

from pvtrace import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pvtrace-2.1.5-py3.7.egg/pvtrace/init.py", line 20, in
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pvtrace-2.1.5-py3.7.egg/pvtrace/data/fluro_red.py", line 2, in
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/scipy/init.py", line 114, in
from scipy._lib._ccallback import LowLevelCallable
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/scipy/_lib/_ccallback.py", line 1, in
from . import _ccallback_c
ImportError: cannot import name '_ccallback_c' from 'scipy._lib' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/scipy/_lib/init.py)

[danieljfarrell]

This is getting away from pvtrace and more the specifics of your system so my comments will not be too useful. But it seems that Scipy is not installed properly, it looks like it is missing some C libraries or headers. If you come up with a build from source recipe please do come back and share.

[keithbriggs]

Ok, thanks again - I'll look into that.

[danieljfarrell]

Did you have any luck with building the dependencies from source? It would be interesting to know how to do it, I think the main difficulty is libspatialindex?

[keithbriggs]

I tried some things but I can't remember what now. I'll check again.

[danieljfarrell]

I wonder if it's worth trying to make a Dockerfile targeting a common Linux disto. to test this? I could help with that, as I don't have a Linux machine at the moment, but can run Docker. What do you think?

[keithbriggs]

Could be good, but I have no specific knowledge of Docker. And I don't need pvtrace at the moment. I have several linux machines, and probably the best would be for me to upgrade one to the latest version of everything, and try to install again in the standard way.