Trouble building and installing wxPython from source

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Robin,

I have tried everything as far as I know and I still can’t make it work. I looked throughout YAST and installed the latest packages for gstreamer, libxml2, and all the dependencies etc and I still cannot build wxPython. I can build and install the wxwidgets from source but I cannot get that one error to go away. I am almost left to keep the media_extension out. If I do this what will the effect be? What are the commands to do it, cause right now that looks like the thing that may need to be done? Still curious why this isn’t working though.

Thanks,

Newell Jensen

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On 11/22/06, Robin Dunn robin@alldunn.com wrote:

Newell Jensen wrote:

Hello All,

I just joined the list and I was looking to get some help with the
problem that I have run into when I go to build wxPython from source. I
have a linux platform and I am able to build and install the wxwidgets

part however when I go to build wxPython I am running into this
problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

building ‘_media’ extension
c++ -pthread -shared build-gtk2/temp.linux-
i686-2.4/src/gtk/media_wrap.o
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lwx_gtk2_aui-2.7
-lwx_gtk2_xrc-2.7 -lwx_gtk2_qa-2.7 -lwx_gtk2_html- 2.7 -lwx_gtk2_adv-2.7
-lwx_gtk2_core-2.7 -lwx_base_xml-
2.7 -lwx_base_net-2.7 -lwx_base-2.7
-lwx_gtk2_media-2.7 -o build-gtk2/lib.linux-i686-2.4/wx/_media.so -pthread
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.0.2/…/…/…/…/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld:
cannot find -lwx_gtk2_media- 2.7
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command ‘c++’ failed with exit status 1

So it isn’t able to find this library. Any suggestions of what I should
do?

This has become a common question over the past couple weeks. You can

check the list archives for more details, but basically the configure
step for wxWidgets decided that it could not build the wxMediaCtrl
classes for some reason, probably because it could not find the
development files for gstreamer. So you can either go back and figure

out what failed there by looking at the output of configure (you
probably just need to install a gstreamer-dev pacakge) or you can
disable the build of the _media extension in setup.py.

–
Robin Dunn

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