Subject Re: [firebird-python] Error on trying to easy_install on Windows 8.1
Author Harriv
I think I had same error with Win7. Setup didn't find fbclient.dll. Copy it to somewhere in path (or modify path to include bin directory if Firebird).



On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Werner <wernerfbd@...> wrote:
 

Hi,

I am getting the following exception:

File "d:\devMine\myEasySetup27.py", line 60, in <module>
easy_install.main(['-Zaxd', sitePKG, egg])
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 1712, in main
with_ei_usage(lambda:
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 1700, in with_ei_usage
return f()
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 1716, in <lambda>
distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw
File "c:\Python27\Lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "c:\Python27\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "c:\Python27\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 211, in run
self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps)
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 446, in easy_install
return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps)
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 476, in install_item
dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir)
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 655, in install_eggs
return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base)
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 930, in build_and_install
self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args)
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 919, in run_setup
run_setup(setup_script, args)
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 62, in
run_setup
lambda: execfile(
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 105, in run
return func()
File "c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 64, in
<lambda>
{'__file__':setup_script, '__name__':'__main__'}
File
"c:\Users\wbruhin\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-jltig2\fdb-1.4\setup.py",
line 7, in <module>
File
"c:\Users\wbruhin\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-jltig2\fdb-1.4\fdb\__init__.py",
line 23, in <module>
File
"c:\Users\wbruhin\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-jltig2\fdb-1.4\fdb\fbcore.py",
line 34, in <module>
File
"c:\Users\wbruhin\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-jltig2\fdb-1.4\fdb\ibase.py",
line 43, in <module>
File "c:\Python27\Lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 365, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)

TypeError: expected string or Unicode object, NoneType found

self._name at this point is "None"

What might I be doing wrong?

Werner