[egenix-users] Trouble building 64-bit Version of mxDateTime (prebuilt and source)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

SNewman at tbo.com wrote:
> I'm trying to build mx.DateTime on my 64-bit CentOS machine so I can
> build Psycopg2.
> 
>  
> 
> When I compile from source, I get this error (after many warnings and
> errors from mxDatetime.c)
> 
>  
> 
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> 
> {standard input}:165: Warning: size of "day" is already 1; not changing
> to 8
> 
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

You should send the complete dump of warnings and messages, since
gcc tries to continue compiling even if it finds an error early on.

> When I try to install the prebuilt version, I get errors that it
> couldn't find mx/mxDatetime.c. When I look in the mx directory, it's
> empty except for a directory called "Docs".

Did you install the prebuilt version using

python setup.py build --skip install

?

Note that the "build --skip" is necessary, since otherwise distutils
will try to build the package again, which fails, since the prebuilt
packages don't include the source code.

> Alternatively, does anyone know what would happen if I tried installing
> the 32-bit version?

That won't work: a 64-bit process cannot load 32-bit libraries.

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