[Kst] Building Python cmake error

[Barth Netterfield]

Maybe try running:

kst2 --serverName=TestPlugins

before you run testplugins.py

cbn

On July 16, 2014 7:34:27 PM Barth Netterfield wrote:

> Very odd... that should work.  The internet has no complaints about it.
> 
> What Windows are you using?
> 
> cbn
> 
> On July 16, 2014 6:02:14 PM Kevin Burr wrote:
> > As far as I can tell using Spyder, testdataobjects.py makes it into
> > client=kst.Client("TestPlugins") as far as
> > 
> >  36: self.ls=QtNetwork.QLocalSocket()
> > 
> > in pykst.py, and then dies without an error message - or at least one I
> > know how to find with my limited knowledge of Python.
> > 
> > I've tried importing from both PyQt4 and PySide with the same results.  I
> > didn't have Kst running since I thought the Client class would start it
> > for
> > me.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Thank-you
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Kevin Burr <kburr at kylowave.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >     Everything built fine.  When I try testdataobjects.py Python dies,
> > >     but
> > > 
> > > I need to see if it is problem with my environment and try out your
> > > changes
> > > to the scripts before I can say it is really a problem.
> > > 
> > >     I am using WinPython because it contains all the necessary math
> > > 
> > > packages and will be easy to install when I pass this on to other
> > > people.
> > > It shouldn't be any different from installing all the pieces manually,
> > > but
> > > you never know.
> > > 
> > > Thank-you!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Barth Netterfield <
> > > 
> > > netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > >> Sorry for the slow reply...
> > >> 
> > >> It is only in git.  as far as I know, it is not packaged.
> > >> 
> > >> To get pykst working:
> > >> Install python 2 (>~2.7)
> > >> install numpy and scipy
> > >> install pyside or PyQt4
> > >> 
> > >> If you use PyQt4, then you need to edit pyKst/pykst.py to comment out
> > >> the
> > >> line
> > >> 
> > >>   from PySide import QtCore, QtNetwork
> > >> 
> > >> and uncomment the line
> > >> 
> > >>   from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtNetwork
> > >> 
> > >> (I use PySide but both should be just fine).
> > >> 
> > >> Then you need to copy pykst.py to the python directory (in ubuntu, it
> > >> is
> > >> /usr/lib/python2.7).
> > >> 
> > >> Then it should "just work".
> > >> 
> > >> In pyKst/demo are some files, some of which work.  You might try
> > >> testdataobjects.py
> > >> 
> > >> Documentation is available in pyKst/html.  But you have to build it. 
> > >> If
> > >> you have the correct packages installed (and I don't remember what they
> > >> are) then "make html" will create pyKst/html/_build/html/index.html.
> > >> 
> > >> This stuff is definitely alpha (which means some stuff might work...
> > >> but
> > >> might break... and might change... and might not match the
> > >> documentation.)
> > >> 
> > >>  But I would really appreciate real world testing and am definitely
> > >>  open
> > >>  to
> > >> 
> > >> suggestions on how to make the API better!
> > >> 
> > >> also: I'm developing in linux, and have no idea how to get python
> > >> running
> > >> in windows, or how to install packages in OsX or windows, or how to do
> > >> almost anything in OsX or windows.   It might be really easy.   But
> > >> everything here refers to linux....
> > >> 
> > >> cbn
> > >> 
> > >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Kevin Burr <kburr at kylowave.com> 
wrote:
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>> 
> > >>>     In the CMake GUI I turned on kst_python, kst_python_build but left
> > >>> 
> > >>> kst_python_prefix blank, hoping cmake would use some sort of default
> > >>> path
> > >>> (I did try giving it a path but it make no difference to the error)
> > >>> 
> > >>>     When I did a configure I received this error:
> > >>>           CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:362 (add_subdirectory):
> > >>>           The source directory
> > >>>           
> > >>>           E:/Work/kst/pyKst
> > >>>           
> > >>>           does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.
> > >>>     
> > >>>     The pyKst directory doesn't contain a cmake file, but the
> > >>> 
> > >>> cmake/pyKst directory does.
> > >>> 
> > >>>      Is there something obvious I have done wrong?
> > >>> 
> > >>> Thank-you
> > >>> 
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> > >> 
> > >> --
> > >> C. Barth Netterfield
> > >> University of Toronto
> > >> 416-845-0946
> > >> 
> > >> 
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Barth Netterfield
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