[SOLVED] Compile error on PySide 1.2.2 Python 3.4.2 Ubuntu 14.04: Linking CXX shared library libshiboken.cpython-34m.so

codewalloper · wrote on 24 Nov 2014, 08:03

Getting compile error from:
python3.4 setup.py bdist_wheel --qmake=/usr/bin/qmake-qt4
Last lines of output:
[ 83%] Building CXX object libshiboken/CMakeFiles/libshiboken.dir/shibokenbuffer.cpp.o
Linking CXX shared library libshiboken.cpython-34m.so
/usr/bin/ld: /home/steve/py342/lib/libpython3.4m.a(abstract.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_Py_NotImplementedStruct' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/steve/py342/lib/libpython3.4m.a: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libshiboken/libshiboken.cpython-34m.so.1.2.2] Error 1
make[1]: *** [libshiboken/CMakeFiles/libshiboken.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
error: Error compiling shiboken

Any suggestions? TIA

[SOLVED]
Python 3.4.2 was built without using ./configure option '--enable-shared' and the default is 'disabled'. The PySide build apparently needs a python "..3.4.so" shared library and not a static (.a) library.