windows installation problems

[nturley]

I ran into a few bumps trying out fusesoc, this is what I tried on a windows 10 machine with python 2.7.8

>pip install fusesoc
...
Successfully installed fusesoc-1.4
>fusesoc init
'fusesoc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

looks like setup.py put a file named fusesoc in C:/Python27/Scripts. Let's try running that.

>python C:\Python27\Scripts\fusesoc init
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\fusesoc.py", line 25, in <module>
    from fusesoc.build import BackendFactory
  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\fusesoc.py", line 25, in <module>
    from fusesoc.build import BackendFactory
ImportError: No module named build

It's confused. I decided to try inside of a virtual environment.

>python venv/Scripts/fusesoc init
...
ImportError: No module named yaml

That got further. That one looks like a missing dependency

>pip install pyyaml
>python C:\Python27\Scripts\fusesoc init
...
INFO:  FuseSoC is ready to use!

UPDATE:

I think I figured out the issue: https://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/distributing/#scripts

"Although setup() supports a scripts keyword for pointing to pre-made scripts to install, the recommended approach to achieve cross-platform compatibility is to use console_scripts entry"

I'm working on a fix

[olofk]

Thanks. I've seen the PR. FYI, I love to have this working on windows, but I'm not sure anyone has tested it that much, so I expect you to hit some problems after it's installed. I'm happy to review and discuss any windows-related patches, but as I don't have easy access to a windows machine, I can't really test things myself that easily

[nturley]

Cross platform testing is a pain. Usually that's what CI is for. Have you thought about using travis or appveyor? I'll spend some time looking into it and you can see if you like it.

[olofk]

Oh, that would also be very welcome. I've been kicking myself for not doing unit testing from the beginning. Could have caught a lot of unnecessary errors that way. But just build/install testing with travis (or similar) would be great.

[nturley]

I broke this up with #106, #107, and #108. So at this point this issue is scoped to windows not being able to execute the "fusesoc" file in C:/Python27/Scripts.

[olofk]

Hopefully this should be fixed now. Would be great if you or someone else could confirm this. Thanks!

[nturley]

Awesome!