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import_scad() does not look in 'Installation library' location #194
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Hi,
'Installation library' is the terminology used on the OpenScad wiki and described as:
"The Installation library location is the libraries directory under the directory where OpenSCAD is installed."
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Libraries
So this use <MCAD/2Dshapes.scad> is valid in openscad,
in SolidPython import_scad("MCAD/2Dshapes.scad") is not valid, it fails with the error
Locations searched were: [PosixPath('MCAD/2Dshapes.scad'), PosixPath('/home/user/.local/share/OpenSCAD/libraries/MCAD/2Dshapes.scad')]
indicating that the installation library path is not search at all.
This is occuring with solidpython 1.1.1 on arch linux
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jeff-dh commentedon Feb 13, 2022
already mentioned in #176
(more or less a duplicate, even though the main issue in #176 is a different)
jeff-dh commentedon Feb 13, 2022
Btw: If you plan to use sophisticated OpenSCAD libraries, it might be worth to have a look at expSolid, because there are several issues with OpenSCAD libraries in the master branch (i.e. #173, #176).
occivink commentedon Feb 13, 2022
Thanks for the hint. I was experimenting with dotScad but so far it seems to work as expected. I'll keep your warning in mind though
etjones commentedon Feb 15, 2022
Hi @occivink. Thanks for noting this. I wasn't aware of this extra library location. Is there a standard installation spot on Linux systems? On MacOS or Windows, that's pretty well defined, but it seems like different Linux distributions have different app layouts. If we have some solid guesses about where to try, I can make sure those paths are searched.
occivink commentedon Feb 15, 2022
On Arch linux, Ubuntu and Fedora this path is
/usr/share/openscad/libraries, so maybe this a rare case where distributions can actually agree on somethingetjones commentedon Feb 15, 2022
That's great. I'll add that to the search paths. Was just looking at the linux install page and I counted 9 different install methods so I don't know if this covers all the bases, but I guess that's why there's a designated libraries directory separate from the app install.
Resolves #176 & #194. Use the first-found, not last-found include dir…
etjones commentedon Feb 15, 2022
Should be fixed in v1.1.3, on PyPI