Building python bindings on Windows -> linker errors

[bet4it]

Building python bindings on Windows -> linker errors

[mglinski]

Go back to building against 64 bit python. The issue you are having is that you are, for some reason, not including the windows python module libraries in the linker search path. Those missing implementation references are python binary library methods, which the linker can’t find in any of the library files that it was able to locate.

This likely means that the directory containing your win64 compatible python binary library files is not in the path array being checked by the linked.

locate those files and ensure the linker is also looking in that folder.

[paulgrassler]

Hmm, I thought about that but as you can see in the setup output, various python folders are included in the include and library paths. I will try to reinstall python.

What got me to try the 32-bit python version in the first place was that I often see 'win32' mentioned in the attached output and especially because it seemed to me that Visual Studio used the x86 linker from what I was able to see in the output. That is why I thought the whole project is supposed to be built in 32-bit and after the linker errors disappeared I felt somewhat validated. Seems to have been a bunch of misinterpretations then.

Here is the entire output that I get in the console after running 'setup.py install':

setup output.txt

[mglinski]

win32 in this case is the name of the binary api.

I believe the issue 100% is some python windows dev binary libraries for python not installed or not located in the correct folder.

Try installing a windows python venv using something like Anaconda/miniconda and you might see an option to include windows dev library files. Then try building in that env.

Also make sure you have the Windows SDK installed and in your path.

[bet4it]

Do you really need to build it by yourself? You could just download the compiled binary from https://github.com/wtdcode/udbserver/suites/13288518790/artifacts/725248477.

[paulgrassler]

Oh, I was not aware of a compiled binary. That looks like it could help me avoid a lot of issues haha. I will try some examples with this. Thank you very much! And thank you @mglinski for your help so far. Was not able to solve the building issues yet. After reinstalling python/anaconda and creating an environment I get new unresolved symbol errors which look more like Windows SDK symbols. However paths to the include and library files of the SDK are included. Well, hopefully the compiled binary works and I will not have to deal with this issues but for completeness sake I will include the output file again.

setup_output2.txt