Trouble installing Ice on Python

jtizzi

Hello everyone,

I am having trouble installing Ice on Python. I am running MacOS X 10.5 and Python 2.5.1. I tried to install the binary but whenever Python tried to load Ice it crashed. I then tried to recompile it myself and am getting the following error:

making all in src
making all in IceUtil
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in Slice
rm -f ../../lib/libSlice.3.3.1.dylib
c++ -dynamiclib -g -ftemplate-depth-128 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -L../../lib -o ../../lib/libSlice.3.3.1.dylib Scanner.o ../Slice/Grammar.o Parser.o CPlusPlusUtil.o CsUtil.o JavaUtil.o Preprocessor.o Checksum.o PythonUtil.o DotNetNames.o RubyUtil.o Util.o FileTracker.o MD5.o MD5I.o -lIceUtil -lmcpp
ld: library not found for -lmcpp
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [../../lib/libSlice.3.3.1.dylib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1
MD-GrieshaberG5-0536A:cpp microscopelab$

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

matthew

If you want to compile it yourself you have to install the third party requirements - see //www.zeroc.com/download.html#src_third_party. However, the binary distribution should work. What exactly were you doing, and what crash did you get? All that you should have to do is:

cd /opt
sudo tar xfz <binary-dist>
sudo ln -s Ice-3.3.1 Ice-3.3
export PYTHONPATH=/opt/Ice-3.3/python
python
import Ice

jtizzi

Thanks for the quick response.

MD-GrieshaberG5-0536A:opt microscopelab$ export PYTHONPATH=/opt/Ice-3.3/python
MD-GrieshaberG5-0536A:opt microscopelab$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import Ice
Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
Abort trap
MD-GrieshaberG5-0536A:opt microscopelab$

A window pops up saying "The application Python quit unexpectedly"

matthew

For whatever reason we're using different python builds. What version of OS X are you running? I'm using 10.5.6.

october:demo matthew$ export PYTHONPATH=/opt/Ice-3.3/python
october:demo matthew$ ls -ldg /opt/Ice-3.3
lrwxr-xr-x  1 admin  9 Apr  1 08:34 /opt/Ice-3.3@ -> Ice-3.3.1
october:demo matthew$ ls -ldg /opt/Ice-3.3.1
drwxr-xr-x@ 16 501  544 Mar 23 06:28 /opt/Ice-3.3.1/
october:demo matthew$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 13 2009, 10:26:13) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import Ice
>>> 

jtizzi

matthew wrote: »

For whatever reason we're using different python builds. What version of OS X are you running? I'm using 10.5.6.

I am currently running MaxOS X 10.5.6 with Python 2.5.1. I thought this might be an error with the version of python so I installed 2.6.1 and then downgraded to 2.5.4 and had the same error with all of them.

matthew

It sounds to me like somehow you messed up your python installation. If you cannot recover it to the standard installation, then you can compile Ice from source if you install the third parties as I advised.

jtizzi

matthew wrote: »

It sounds to me like somehow you messed up your python installation. If you cannot recover it to the standard installation, then you can compile Ice from source if you install the third parties as I advised.

I looked into and found that the stock version of Python is 2.5.2. I re-downloaded the XCode for my mac. This updated python back to the stock version but am still getting the same error message.

I tried compiling Ice from my source but got the error message that I posted to begin the thread.

jtizzi wrote:

making all in src
making all in IceUtil
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in Slice
rm -f ../../lib/libSlice.3.3.1.dylib
c++ -dynamiclib -g -ftemplate-depth-128 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -L../../lib -o ../../lib/libSlice.3.3.1.dylib Scanner.o ../Slice/Grammar.o Parser.o CPlusPlusUtil.o CsUtil.o JavaUtil.o Preprocessor.o Checksum.o PythonUtil.o DotNetNames.o RubyUtil.o Util.o FileTracker.o MD5.o MD5I.o -lIceUtil -lmcpp
ld: library not found for -lmcpp
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [../../lib/libSlice.3.3.1.dylib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1
MD-GrieshaberG5-0536A:cpp microscopelab$

bernard

If you want to build Ice yourself on Mac OS, you need to build first a number of third-party dependencies. One of these dependencies is the mcpp library. See the README in our third-party source archive:

http://www.zeroc.com/download.html#src_third_party

Best regards,
Bernard

afraser

same issue

I'm installing Ice-3.3.1 on OSX 10.5 i386 as a prerequisite to OMERO and having the same problems as jtizzi.

I downloaded the binary from here: http://www.zeroc.com/download/Ice/3.3/Ice-3.3.1-bin-macosx.tar.gz and followed the directions in the readme and repeated here: here.

Specifically:
unpack Ice-3.3.1-bin-macosx.tar.gz by using the Archive Utility on my Mac
Move Ice-3.3.1/ to /opt
and add the following to ~/.bash_profile

export ICE_HOME=/opt/Ice-3.3.1
export PATH=$PATH:$ICE_HOME/bin
export PYTHONPATH=$ICE_HOME/python:$PYTHONPATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ICE_HOME/lib

and Finally:

$ python
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67917, Dec 23 2008, 14:57:27) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
>>> import Ice
Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
Abort trap

After repeated tweaks to the above and attempting to use Ice-3.4.1 (only to find it was apparently built for 10.6), I moved on to try to install from source. I was able to install bzip2, db-4.8, expat, and mcpp, but got stuck when I got to forms-1.3.0 with the following error:

$ant test
...
BUILD FAILED
/Users/afraser/Downloads/ThirdParty-Sources-3.4.1/forms-1.3.0/build.xml:226: The <classpath> for <junit> must include junit.jar if not in Ant's own classpath

I have:

ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant

Maybe I need to change my CLASSPATH somehow for junit(?)

I don't know where to go at this point since I can't seem to find a path of least resistance. Could anyone give me a hand?

Cheers,
Adam

bernard

Hi Adam,

Welcome to our forums!

The simplest is probably to use an existing binary distribution, i.e.

- the ZeroC Ice 3.3.1 binary distribution for MacOS X

and then you use the Ice 3.3.1 source distribution only to build Ice for Python with your favorite Python version--you don't need to rebuild everything


- the MacPorts Ice 3.3 binary distribution
See The MacPorts Project -- Available Ports


Building everything from sources is also possible. In the case of JGoodies, you also simply use the JAR files they provide:
JGoodies :: Downloads :: Libraries

Best regards,
Bernard

afraser

Thanks for the quick reply

I forgot to mention that I gave macports a try and came up dry:

r$ sudo port install ice-python25
--->  Computing dependencies for ice-python25
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for db46
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.1
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.2
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.3
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for patch.4.6.21.4
Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ice-cpp db46 mcpp python25 bzip2 gdbm sqlite3 tk tcl xorg-libXScrnSaver xorg-scrnsaverproto
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get complete output.

and I couldn't find any ports with the name ice33

$ sudo port install ice33-python25
Error: Port ice33-python25 not found
Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get complete output.
$ port search ice33-python25
No match for ice33-python25 found

Still new to macports... maybe I'm doing something silly?

afraser

works!

Thanks so much. I downloaded the source and then was away for a while. When I came back I forgot that you said I didn't need to build cpp/ and all the third party stuff, so I cleaned out /opt/Ice and started over. Man, that was an ugly path.

Anyway, I moved the binary dist back to /opt, and built Ice for Python and things are finally working!

Thanks again.