[ome-users] Building openmicroscopy from source

[Roger Leigh]

On 09/04/2014 09:43, John Webber (NBI) wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Thanks for your quick response (as always!).
>
> I was indeed using different shells for these two parts - one a git bash shell and one a visual studios command prompt.
>
> As per your advice below, I have found the path for the git executable and added this to my PATH environment variable.  I now get a different, but very similar error:
>
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>                  ::          UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCIES         ::
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>                  ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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>                  :: ome#bio-formats;5.0.1-DEV-ice34: not found
>
>                  ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>
> One interesting thing about this issue is that I am expecting to use ice 3.5.1, whereas the error above is for ice34. Do you have any pointers as to how I can correct this issue now?

Dear John,

There's a slight wrinkle here.  The ZeroC Ice packages for Ice 3.5.x use
Python 3.3 rather than Python 2.6 or 2.7.  The Ice 3.4.x packages use
Python 2.6.  Since all the OMERO python scripts are using python >= 2.6
(but not 3) this means that you can't currently use Ice 3.5 on Windows.

You can use Python 2.6/2.7 on Windows if you build Ice yourself from
source, then you can choose the Python version you want for IcePy to
link against.  It's just the "official" ZeroC installer that forces you
to use Python 3, so it's technically possible to use Ice 3.5 on Windows
with OMERO, just hard in practice since most people prefer not to
rebuild Ice.


Kind regards,
Roger

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Dr Roger Leigh -- Open Microscopy Environment
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College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street,
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