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Jason Tishler wrote:
> I did some more investigation and I still don't see how you were able to
> build this module without some kind of workaround.  Empirically, I
> determined that setup.py is trying to find one of the following files:
> 
>     libsqlite3.dll
>     libsqlite3.dylib
>     libsqlite3.a
> 
> in typical library locations (e.g., /usr/lib).
> 
> However, sqlite3 only installs the following in /usr/lib:
> 
>     libsqlite3.dll.a
>     libsqlite3.la
> 
> So, setup.py fails for me in exactly the same way as documented in the
> above bug report.

Ah, the Ports sqlite3 package also provides a static libsqlite3, so that
would explain it.  I'm not sure why the Cygwin package was built
dynamic-only.

> I was able to (temporarily) workaround the problem with the following
> hack:
> 
>     $ ln -s libsqlite3.dll.a /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dll
> 
> Obviously, a better solution is to change setup.py to use the libraries
> provided by sqlite3 directly.  I will try to affect this change.

IOW that it should look for .dll.a on Cygwin; I agree, that should be
done anyway.


Yaakov
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