OSError: Could not find lib geos_c.dll or load any of its variants

[ghost]

Hi there, I am using Windows 10, PyCharm and Anaconda, which I downloaded today from the official website... I set up an environment and was just looking at how to make a basic map using cartopy and matplotlib

For improved readability, I use pastebin for extensive stuff, such as the rror message!

https://pastebin.com/srDr9sBt

my result for `conda list`
https://pastebin.com/MjYSQx7s

It seems like the structure of my env is different from the one that is looked for, as it is looking in C:\\Anaconda3\\envs\\Kevins_environment\\Library\\lib\\geos_c.dll while searching for geos_c.dll finds it in C:\Anaconda3\envs\Kevins_environment\Library\bin

I tried simply copying, but it won't work!

my result for conda info

no matter what I change - I cannot get active environment to show Kevins_environment (which it should, as I set it to be system interpreter) (I am giving you this output from PyCharm)

active environment : None user config file : C:\Users\KW.condarc populated config files : C:\Users\KW.condarc conda version : 4.5.12 conda-build version : 3.17.6 python version : 3.7.1.final.0 base environment : C:\Anaconda3 (writable) channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/win-64 https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch package cache : C:\Anaconda3\pkgs C:\Users\KW\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs envs directories : C:\Anaconda3\envs C:\Users\KW\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs C:\Users\KW.conda\envs platform : win-64 user-agent : conda/4.5.12 requests/2.21.0 CPython/3.7.1 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.17134 administrator : False netrc file : None offline mode : False

when I use it via cmd it actually works fine. this might be a configuration issue which I cannot wrap my head around?! Can anyone help with this please?

Edit: I just checked: When I use Spyder it works fine ...

[phobson]

From the command line and spyder, it works. Where does it not work?

[phobson]

Also, according to the output of conda list, you don't have any libraries from conda-forge. Was that intentional? If so, the issue is with the packages from the default channel (someone else) and not conda-forge (this repo)

[ocefpaf]

Closing this b/c it looks like an env confusion and not a problem with the package.