Trouble compiling on Windows about tesserpy

[squidpickles]

Oh wow. I don't use Windows at all, so I've never tried building. Such is my desire to see this working cross-platform that I'll probably find a Windows VM and experiment, but it may take a little while. If anyone has suggestions in the meantime, they're welcome.

[tcourbon]

OK, I may have found why I could not load the module : libtesseract302.dll was missing liblepta168.dll. I downloaded it and added it to the setup script and I can now import tesserpy.

found out on http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/vs2008/doc/setup.html after some serious digging into various places...

I'll keep you posted, if anyone needs to build tesserpy on windows someday.

[tcourbon]

For testing purpose, here is the output file of bdist_wininst for my platform : tesserpy-1.1.1.win32-py2.7.exe https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5GKfjwEuZ0LZ0RlWDgyZHJySXc

Also, the setup.py I used :

# Copyright 2013 The Blindsight Corporation
# Note : I have created a tesseract fordler with the required lib/*.dll at the same location as the setup.py script.

from distutils.core import setup, Extension
import numpy, distutils

setup(
        name = 'tesserpy',
        version = '1.1.1',
        description = 'Python interface to the Tesseract library',
        maintainer = 'Kevin Rauwolf',
        maintainer_email = '[email protected]',
        url = 'https://github.com/blindsightcorp/tesserpy',
        requires = ['numpy', ],
        ext_modules = [
            Extension('tesserpy', ['tesserpy.cpp', ],
                libraries = ['libtesseract302', ],
                include_dirs = [numpy.get_include(), ],
            ),
        ],
        data_files = [('Scripts', ['tesseract/lib/libtesseract302.dll', 'tesseract/lib/liblept168.dll']), ],
)

[squidpickles]

Were you able to get it working with that setup? (Also, what OS were you using to compile? I was under the impression that Visual Studio 2012 Express didn't run on Windows XP.)

[squidpickles]

Seems this builds.