Compiling on Ubuntu: Shiboken2 problems

[Bayesian]

I have been trying to compile FreeCAD master and the Realthunder branch on an Ubuntu system. I can successfully build both with Python 3.6, but not 3.7.

For one thing, Cmake seems to recognize both the Python 3.7 installation I specify on the command line and a Python 2.7 one I didn't. I have installed the shiboken2 packages from Ubuntu.

Then I get errors that Shiboken2 wants to link to Python 2.7 symbols, which aren't there. Do I need to get shiboken2 for Python 3.7 somewhere?

Thank you!

[kkremitzki]

You didn't specify which particular Ubuntu version you're on nor the CMake flags you used which would be helpful.

You have both Python 3.6 and 3.7 on the same system? Is one a custom installation? If so, everything in FreeCAD's dependency chain which is linked against Python needs to be rebuilt to link to your custom Python.

Regardless of whether newer Ubuntus have Python 3.6 or 3.7, both work, so it's not a problem with a particular Python version.

For those, if you're on Ubuntu 18.04 or newer, it should be sufficient to call CMake just with

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cmake ../freecad -DBUILD_QT5=ON -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3

[Bayesian]

I'm using 18.04 and Python 3.5,3.6 and 3.7 from the official Ubuntu repositories.

I now that I have to have shiboken2 for python3.7 in some form ... I had hoped someone would tell me how. Also I don't know why cmake still wants to link Python 2.7...

Specifying python3 is not sufficient, because that's linked to 3.6.

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cmake -DBUILD_QT5=ON -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3.7m -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/python3.7m/ -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.7m.so    -DFREECAD_USE_EXTERNAL_SMESH=OFF ../freecad-source/

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==============
Summary report
==============

-- Build type:          
-- Python:              [/usr/bin/python3.7m] [-python2.7.x86_64-linux-gnu]
-- PCL:                 not enabled
-- pybind11:            not enabled

I've figured out by now that the pytho3.7 stuff doesn't have shiboken2 from the repositories, so I'm going to install that manually.

[kkremitzki]

On Ubuntu 16.04 I also have to include PYTHON_BASENAME and PYTHON_SUFFIX flags, so maybe adding those in this format would help:

https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/f ... /rules#L33

(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is for example x86_64-linux-gnu)

[freman]

whenever I scan some output with that package name it always reads as shitbroken2 , rather unfortunate naming.

On Fedora30

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python3 -V
Python 3.7.5