blaine schrieb: > Hello Everyone! > I am hoping that someone out there can help me out with this > problem. We are using a gumstix platform to develop an embedded > system. All that really matters is that it is an ARM processor > running an embedded linux, details to follow. Gumstix has its own > kernel tree that we cross compile for the system. We do have python, > and it has all of the modules that I need except for one. I need > ncurses (module curses). I can't seem to figure out how to get it to > work - and the only documentation I can find is for Windows (because > windows doesn't have ncurses). We have enabled ncurses support in the > kernel menu, and that has not helped. I can't seem to trace down > where we would 'enable' ncurses support? All other modules seem to > work that I've tried (termios, sys, os, etc.) > > Output from python: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# python > , Feb 20 2008, 11:07:36) > [GCC 4.1.1] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import curses > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/curses/__init__.py", line 15, in ? > from _curses import * > ImportError: No module named _curses > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a > Linux gumstix 2.6.21gum #1 Tue Mar 4 15:31:07 EST 2008 armv5tel > unknown > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] lib]# ls /usr/lib/*curses* > /usr/lib/libcurses.a@ /usr/lib/libncurses.a /usr/lib/ > libncurses.so@ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] lib-dynload]# ls _* > _bisect.so* _codecs_tw.so* _random.so* > _codecs_cn.so* _csv.so* _socket.so* > _codecs_hk.so* _heapq.so* _testcapi.so* > _codecs_iso2022.so* _hotshot.so* _weakref.so* > _codecs_jp.so* _locale.so* > _codecs_kr.so* _multibytecodec.so* > > I hope this is trivial, and I apologize ahead of time if so. Would > this perhaps be a compilation issue? Something we have to turn on in > the python compile?
Usually, you need not only the libraries but also the headers at compilation time. Most probably these were missing. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list