Re: Installation of pygobject with gtk on windows.

[Enno Borgsteede <ennoborg gmail com>]

Hello Nicolas,
> I'm writing a small application for name generation, that I want to share with various people.  
> Unfortunately, a lot of said people are not passionate GNU/Linux user as I am, and so porting the application 
> for windows is important.  I am not a main windows developer.  I didn't use C to write the app and I already 
> have a small prototype in python3 that works under Gnu/Linux using PyGObject for Gtk3.  I now want to, 
> firstly, have a decent installation of PyGObject and Gtk on windows so the program run and, secondly, be able 
> to build an installer bundling the python and gnome dependencies to run standalone on windows.
>
> I'm already stuck at that first step.  After many failures, I reinstall python3 with the official install and with pip. 
>  Since pip show PyGObject to be of version 2-28-3 when downloading it, which seems  waaay outdated, I tried to pick a 
> more official installer from this sourceforge page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygobjectwin32/files/.  The 
> installer fails to recognize a key in the registry and suggest to find the installation path from %PATH%.  It does find 
> the correct installation directory "C:\Python-35\Lib\site-packages".  I select the base package, Gtk, Glade 
> and the documentation browser to be installed.  The installer finishes successfully.  Glade and devhelp run without 
> problem, however I cannot load pygobject in python itself.
>
>      >>> from gi.repository import Gtk
>      Traceback (most recent call last):
>        File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>      ImportError: No module named 'gi'
>
> The folder site-packages, only lists a folder "gnome" (besides pip, setuptools, easy_install and pkg_resources).  Importing 
> package "gnome" yield an empty package.  Am I missing a step?  What should I do for being able to import "gi" under 
> windows?
>
> Python developers concerned with windows, please help me!  I thank you already!
We have the same sort of configuration issues for the Gramps genealogy 
program. I'm a developer for that, but I only work on Linux myself. We 
have a fellow developer who works on the Windows version though, for 
which we have an all-in-one installer that was initially created by 
another developer.

For Gramps, we have separate installers for 32 and 64 bit Windows 
versions, and you may need the same, although I think that for a simple 
application 32 bit will be enough.

Anyway, if you are interested, you may ask for advice on the Gramps 
developers list:

http://sourceforge.net/p/gramps/mailman/

You can also look at the mail history on that list, and see old 
discussion about this.

regards,

Enno