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Thanks for raising this issue. We'd prefer this to be done by Saxonica rather than a third party, but would appreciate any help you can offer.

O'Neil Delpratt wrote:

Thanks for raising this issue. We'd prefer this to be done by Saxonica rather than a third party, but would appreciate any help you can offer.

Ok how can we proceed with that? Do you have some kind of CI/CD infrastructure such that, one a release is ready, and it will build the code and run additional steps to prepare the compressed archive on the website? I can work with you on examples with shell script, Makefile build steps, but how we approach this for the community largely depends on the tooling you use and what you are comfortable with.

Hi, Lets discuss this next week. Probably best to continue discussion via email (oneil@saxonica.com) and on a Zoom/MS Team meeting.

O'Neil Delpratt wrote:

Hi, Lets discuss this next week. Probably best to continue discussion via email (oneil@saxonica.com) and on a Zoom/MS Team meeting.

Sounds good.

O'Neil Delpratt wrote:

Hi, trying to reach out to you, but cannot see your email.

I am sorry about that, I dropped the ball here. Sending you an email.

For the python extension to work the shared library created by native-image has to be copied in the /usr/lib directory instead of the pip default location. This is not ideal. I am still investigating how to change the setup.py to have the library in the correct location.

See error:

ImportError: /home/ond1/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/saxonc.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: j_callTemplateReturningValue

I found this forum post similar to my problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72052512/importerror-so-cannot-open-shared-object-file-after-pip-installing-extensi

I have managed to solve my issue on loading the graalvm shared library. See solution below:

extra_link_args = []


if system() == 'Darwin':
    saxon_home = 'libs/darwin'
else:
    saxon_home = 'libs/nix'
    extra_link_args.append('-Wl,-rpath,' + saxon_home)

ext_modules = [Extension(
                        "saxonc", 
                        sources=[ ..., extra_link_args = extra_link_args,
                       libraries=['saxon-eec-12.1'], ... ), ... ]

Will there also be a wheel for Windows? Just wondering and asking, admittedly I don't understand details of those scripts but

if system() == 'Darwin':
    saxon_home = 'libs/darwin'
else:
    saxon_home = 'libs/nix'

sounds as if Windows is not on the list.

Yes we plan to provide a wheel for windows too. Something like the following: https://github.com/tennom/saxonpy-win