Installing PySide under Python 3 virtualenv on Ubuntu

Question

I get the following error due to a missing library:

error: Failed to locate the Python library /usr/local/lib/libpython3.3m.so

I've tried installing pyside from the git HEAD as per this SO Pyside install fails (Python 2.7.4)

but still fails due to:

/usr/local/lib/libpython3.3m.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

The file /usr/local/lib/libpython3.3m.a exists on my system. Any ideas?

sadly, no. This was encountered when trying to get IPython GUI in Python 3.3, i've found that it's much more flexible to use IPython in the terminal (+tmux) and export pngs, so i didn't purse this. — chris
– chris, Commented Jul 7, 2013 at 16:32

ekhumoro · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-17 21:53:13Z

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This almost certainly happens because your Python installation has a static library under $PREFIX/lib, but no shared libraries. That is, there is a libpython3.3m.a file, but no libpython3.3m.so file(s).

To fix this, recompile Python with the --enable-shared flag.

answered Dec 17, 2013 at 21:53

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