[Discuss-gnuradio] Building gnuradio on cygwin - wxPython issue

[Jan Schiefer]

Hi,

I should know better, but I am nonetheless trying to build gnuradio on
Windows XP/cygwin. I did follow the instructions on the wiki (including
picking the exact versions), but I am getting stuck on building wxPython.
When I try to do the
python setup.py install WXPORT=msw COMPILER=cygwin BUILD_GLCANVAS=0
BUILD_GIZMOS=0 UNICODE=0
step, I get the following error:

function
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 1034, in <module>
    **other_kw
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/install.py", line 577, in run
    self.run_command('build')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/build.py", line 134, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 340, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 449, in
build_extensions
    self.build_extension(ext)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 531, in
build_extension
    target_lang=language)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 769, in
link_shared_object
    extra_preargs, extra_postargs, build_temp, target_lang)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/cygwinccompiler.py", line 189, in link
    libraries.extend(self.dll_libraries)
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

The offending line 189 is a rather nondescript
libraries.extend(self.dll_libraries)

Has anybody who is more pythonic than me seen this before? My cygwin
version is current as of last Wednesday, and the python version is 2.6.5
(no other python installations on the machine).

Thanks for any insights,
    Jan