[Qgis-user] [QGIS-LIST] Contour plugin install under OSGEO4W

[Benoit de Cabissole]

Lionel,

Thanks for the link.
The simplest for me, not being proficient in python at all, is to go the
GRASS route for now...

Cheers,
Benoit


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lionel Roubeyrie [mailto:lroubeyrie at limair.asso.fr]
> Sent: Monday, 18 January 2010 12:50
> To: Benoit de Cabissole
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] [QGIS-LIST] Contour plugin install under
> OSGEO4W
>
>
> Benoit,
> I never used OSGEO4W, I only work on Linux workstations. Like says here
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-python, you need to
> install modules under
> the osgeo4w python directory, then effectively the .exe file
> provided by shapely
> won't work, sorry for the mistake :( Maybe playing with ctypes
> under the osgeo4w
> installation, but I don't know how to...
> With GRASS yes you have some contours possiblities.
>
> Le 18/01/2010 10:50, Benoit de Cabissole a écrit :
> > Hi Lionel,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> >
> >> Lionel Roubeyrie wrote:
> >> Hi Benoit,
> >> Have you tried to install shapely windows .exe from the pypi
> repository?
> >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely
> >
> > Yes, I've tried. I had Python 2.5 installed as a standalone app with the
> > shapely .exe installed in its tree. I've removed the standalone
> python and
> > all its modules and now the shapely .exe cannot install because
> there is no
> > trace of python in the Windows registry anymore! (The windows
> installer for
> > python modules seems to look up in the registry to locate the
> path(s) of the
> > installed python(s), but OSGEO4W does not show itself in the
> registry and
> > I've been unable to find any trick, while running shapely .exe,
> to go pass
> > the install screen where you have to select the python tree to
> install to.)
> > As I understand it, the OSGEO4W system is a UNIX-like
> environment (e.g. à la
> > 'msys') and I was thinking that a UNIX-like install is the only way to
> > install python modules in OSGEO4W?!?
> >
> > Note that the contour plugin works fine with the standalone
> versions of QGIS
> > (1.4&  1.3) and the standalone version of python. It's only in
> the OSGEO4W
> > environment that the pluging fails to install because shapely is not
> > packaged with OSGEO4W. Question is: can shapely be included in
> the OSGEO4W
> > system?
> >
> > Under OSGEO4W, the alternative would be to use GRASS plugin to do the
> > contouring?
> >
> > Benoit
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Le 16/01/2010 11:47, Benoit Mweb a écrit :
> >>> Hi List,
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to install the Contour python plugin under QGIS 1.4 and
> >>> OSGEO4W on WinXP machine. Problem is that the plugin requires
> Shapely to
> >>> be installed in python OSGEO4W. But I have no way to install
> Shapely: it
> >>> depends on CTypes that does not seem to be implemented in
> Python OSGEO4W
> >>> (when installing Shapely with "Python setup install" I've got an error
> >>> saying CTypes is needed). And I cannot install CTypes because there is
> >>> no compiler in the msys install.
> >>>
> >>> Does anybody know how to install the Contour plugin under
> >> OSGEO4W? Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Benoit
> >>> WinXP - QGIS 1.4 - OSGEO4W
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