Re: Search path for typelibs

[Jonathan Ryan <jryan curious-os com>]

On Fri, 13 May 2011 09:24:08 +0200
Damien Caliste <damien caliste cea fr> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>    I'm wondering how to tell pyGObject to look in a specific path when
> importing a typelib. Typical use case is that mypackage is installed
> in a non-system directory (let's say
> $HOME/devel/usr/lib/girepository-1.0 for devel and testing purpose)
> and "from gi.repository import mypackage" fails when doing the
> enumerate_versions() in importer.py.
> 
>    I try to use PYTHONPATH or change sys.path to add my
> non-system installation directory but it's not working.
> 
>    Any idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Damien.
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Have you considered using jhbuild for a local build enviornment? It
automatically sets up the correct env variables for you:
https://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild

I think you need your GI_TYPELIB_PATH set correctly.

-- 
Jonathan Ryan