Comments on: Compiling Subversion Python bindings on Windows

By: Allard

Allard — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:12:35 +0000

This action:
Do a Windows search for “*.dll” in C:\Temp\subversion-1.6.9\Release\subversion

should be replaced by:
Do a Windows search for “*.dll” in C:\Temp\subversion-1.6.9

else you mis the APR dll’s and will get the python error:
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

By: lejordet

lejordet — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:16:24 +0000

I’ve been trying to repeat this for building SVN 1.6.5, and I’ve had some strange problems that didn’t occur the first time around – I’ll investigate if it’s due to changing the SVN version, or if there’s a problem with the procedure.

Notable changes:
- apr_* will build, but have 8-9 failed builds – the database modules won’t build unless you add in the proper libraries, which is outside the scope of this article, for now.
- You might have to force VS2008 to recognize where your python.exe is found (Adding the path manually in options), otherwise some parts of the base library will build successfully (or so it seems), except there’s a line about not finding “python”, and nothing is really built.

After a bit of work I got it to build, but the finished product, the .pyd/.py files, don’t work…

By: lejordet

lejordet — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:29:12 +0000

Are you building all or just “__SWIG_PYTHON__”? I’ll try this again to update a newer version, so I’ll revise the steps if they’ve become incorrect in the mean time.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:24:54 +0000

Interesting article, but I can’t get past the Visual Studio step.

aprutil.dsw fails with 6 errors like:
7>.\apr_dbd_mysql.c(29) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘mysql.h’: No such file or directory
8>.\apr_dbd_freetds.c(39) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘sybdb.h’: No such file or directory

subversion_vcnet.sln compiles without errors, but doesn’t create any files in C:\Temp\subversion-1.6.0\subversion\bindings\swig\python\. Only folders with names like python_repos, python_fs, etc.

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