need a file for celstart that isn't included in binary for windows

[fireside]

cspace is included in the celstart binary 1.2 for windows, however, cspace imports a file called _cpace which isn't included in the download.  Does anyone know how I could get that file?  I need it because blender2crystal needs it.  It's a python file.

[Leetonicon]

What version of python are you using (I'm assuming you installed Python first)... I've found that I need to use Python 2.4 to get celstart (the default binary) to work under Windows or I get that error.

Oops... meant to add that 2.5 works just fine under Linux with the latest celstart binary (even using the exact same celstart applications)

[fireside]

I'm no python wiz or anything, but I know that if it says import _cspace, then that file has to exist and be in the path someplace.  The file doesn't exist in the latest celstart binary for windows.  Celstart looks really cool but there doesn't seem to be much support. 

[Leetonicon]

can't help you then.  I just did a search on my windows drive and found no cspace.dll file (which should be what python loads when it sees import _cspace) but I can vouch that up until my video card died (leaving me with the onboard PoS), I was quite able to run celstart with python apps when using python 2.4  and got an error (which I am pretty sure is the one you're seeing but am not certain) when I had python 2.5 installed.  I did a grep in the celstart directory under windows and msvcrt.dll has cspace in it (but I can't remember how to do the equivalent of nm myobj.so to dump the dll symbol table (or else I can but it's been stripped) to see if it actually has the cspace code or if that's just a weird collision... it's possible that the cspace module is embedded inside that dll (and then possible but I'm stretching) that python 2.4 supported that somewhat bizarre behavior whereas 2.5 introduced stricter rules.

Good luck.

[fireside]

I did a search and apparently they did drop a file extension for dll in version 2.5.  I really can't go back to version 2.4 which is what, over a year old now isn't it?  They can't expect us to keep 2.4 on our systems that long.  Does it work with 2.5 in linux?

[Leetonicon]

I had mentioned that I had used it just fine with python 2.5 under linux, but remembered that I should caveat that with the fact that I built celstart under linux myself versus using the supplied one (and I can't test the prebuilt one anymore due to other issues)

[fireside]

Sorry, I missed that.  Maybe I'll try it with Linux, then.  I really don't want to reinstall 2.4.  I would at least like to go through the tutorials.  There's a python24.dll in the celstart directory so it's probably not going to work any other way in Windows.  Maybe I'll just wait till they upgrade celstart for Windows, also.  I've got other things to do anyway.