Unable to build under Arch linux

[Taomach]

The problem is with wxwidgets. I have both 3.0 and 2.8 versions of wxgtk installed, so I run configure with --enable-python and --with-wx-config=wx-config-2.8. After that, make fails with this log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/02f587ae563e11edbd94 . How do I fix this?

[neurodroid]

Explicitly indicating the Python 2.x binary during configure should fix this, e.g.:

PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.7 ./configure ...

[Taomach]

Thanks, but is it possible to build stimfit with python3?

[neurodroid]

Thanks, but is it possible to build stimfit with python3?

Unfortunately no. The main issue is that the wxPython API for the embedded shell hasn't been ported to Python 3 yet. I've raised this issue with the wxPython developers almost 2 years ago:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wxpython-dev/2UmbQUr_6QM

If you'd like to build with Python 3, you should ask the wxPython developers to port the embedded sample to Phoenix (their codename for py3-wxPython)

[Taomach]

Well, that's a pity. Specifying python version as you suggested earlier did not help too.

[neurodroid]

Can you send or paste your config.log please?

[Taomach]

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/30501b383c3ca10fb983

[neurodroid]

Your PYTHON environment variable was ignored - see l.1167 of your config.log, that still points to your default system Python (/usr/bin/python, which is presumably python 3). Make sure that /usr/bin/python2.7 actually exists on your system. Also, note that the environment variable has to be set on the same line as the call to configure:

PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.7 ./configure --enable-python

--enable-ipython hasn't been tested in a very long time - I doubt it will work. If everything fails you'll have to explicitly set your PYTHON environment variable temporarily and then switch back to your default Python once you're done with configure:

TMPPYTHON=${PYTHON}
export PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.7
./configure --enable-python
export PYTHON=${TMPPYTHON}

Make sure that in your config.log, PYTHON is set to python2.

[neurodroid]

P.S. You can build the stfio module with Python 3

[schloegl]

Stimfit can be build with python3 for quite some time. Assuming this is fixed.