[GRASS-dev] Calling GRASS from outside: cannot open shared object file

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> I tried my current start-python-and-create-a-location script on Windows.
>> The location is generated but then a call of the scripting library fails
>> with a gettext error (I print the os.environment to understand more but no
>> idea):
>
>> "C:\OSGeo4W\apps\grass\grass-7.1.svn\etc\python\grass\script\core.py", line 38, in <module>
>>     gettext.install('grasslibs', os.path.join(os.getenv("GISBASE"), 'locale'))
>>   File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 96, in join
>>     assert len(path) > 0
>> TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
>
> Your dump of os.environ doesn't mention GISBASE.
>
> os.getenv("GISBASE") will return None, and pass it to os.path.join(),
> where the "assert len(path) > 0" (line 96 of ntpath.py) will call
> len(None), which results in the above TypeError exception.

Right, forgot to set it for Windows (in the Linux subsection it was there).
Now it works.

thanks
Markus