Question

I’m trying to get reportlab to run under Jython (2.5.2), but it fails to install:

$ easy_install reportlab

Searching for reportlab>=2.4
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/reportlab/
Reading http://www.reportlab.com/
Best match: reportlab 2.5
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/reportlab/reportlab-2.5.tar.gz#md5=cdf8b87a6cf1501de1b0a8d341a217d3
Processing reportlab-2.5.tar.gz
Running reportlab-2.5/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/04/nrrmlfvx05l43fj6rljc2z400000gq/T/easy_install-x2cwzJ/reportlab-2.5/egg-dist-tmp-D_S74b
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#Attempting install of _rl_accel, sgmlop & pyHnj
#extensions from '/private/var/folders/04/nrrmlfvx05l43fj6rljc2z400000gq/T/easy_install-x2cwzJ/reportlab-2.5/src/rl_addons/rl_accel'
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#Attempting install of _renderPM
#extensions from '/private/var/folders/04/nrrmlfvx05l43fj6rljc2z400000gq/T/easy_install-x2cwzJ/reportlab-2.5/src/rl_addons/renderPM'
# installing without freetype no ttf, sorry!
# You need to install a static library version of the freetype2 software
# If you need truetype support in renderPM
# You may need to edit setup.cfg (win32)
# or edit this file to access the library if it is installed
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Downloading standard T1 font curves
Finished download of standard T1 font curves
error: Setup script exited with error: Compiling extensions is not supported on Jython

The error seems to occur when setup.py tries to install the renderPM extension.
Is there a way to install reportlab without the renderPM extension ?

Answer 1

I got it to install (and it even seems to work) by doing this:

curl -O http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/reportlab/reportlab-2.5.tar.gz
tar zxf reportlab-2.5.tar.gz
cd reportlab*
rm -rf src/rl_addons
jython setup.py install

Basically, this removes the native extensions, which the setup doesn’t seem to mind (it will print warnings though).