Re: [gtk-osx-users] ImportError: No module named gi.

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us>]

> On Mar 30, 2019, at 10:55 AM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
>
> > Le 30 mars 2019 à 03:41, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> a écrit :
> >
> > > On Mar 29, 2019, at 2:20 PM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have install GTK+ 3 and Python with:
> > > $ jhbuild build python
> > >
> > > Then PyObject with:
> > > $ jhbuild build pygobject
> > >
> > > But I've the error: "ImportError: No module named gi"
> > >
> > > Where is it wrong?
> >
> > pygobject needs gobject-introspection. Build meta-gtk-osx-core-gtk3 instead of just gtk+-3.0.
> > Also you need python3 rather than python nowadays.
>
> Hello John,
>
> Sorry, my wording was incorrect.
> $ jhbuild build pygobject
> is built without any error.
> But I've got "ImportError ... gi" when running my app.
>
> Well, I built python3 and pygobject3 but I've got another error:
> $ jhbuild build python3
> $ jhbuild build pygobject3
> *** Building pygobject3 *** [4/4]
> python setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "setup.py", line 29, in <module>
>    import pkg_resources
> ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

Note that it calls python, not python3. Since you have built both (and maybe even if you hadn't) you need to 
link $PREFIX/bin/python3 to $PREFIX/bin/python, replacing the python2 link.

Regards,
John Ralls