[Nix-dev] Trouble with pygobject

[Bjørn Forsman]

Hi Richard,

On 31 October 2014 19:28, Richard Wallace <rwallace at thewallacepack.net> wrote:
> Hey all,
[...]
> Now I'm trying to get pithos (a Pandora GTK client) built [1].  Pithos
> builds and everything looks ok, but when I try and run it I get
> `ImportError: No module named gi`.  I'm not familiar with Python
> development, but a bit of Googling indicates that python can't pygobject.
>
> Looking at the wrapper created, I see the path to
> `/nix/store/hlyp3a9cy5k7qhfc1chd1v3bm2jljazn-pygobject-2.28.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages`
> included in the PYTHONPATH.

I think you need to add gobjectIntrospection to buildInputs, and then
wrap the executable with GI_TYPELIB_PATH set to GI_TYPELIB_PATH from
the build environment. See the virt-manager expression for example.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman