Problems with PySide installation

Question

I have python2.7.9 on my new Xubuntu installation, albeit it's 14.04. PySide installation stuck with Shiboken

Linking CXX shared library libshiboken-python2.7.so
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a(abstract.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_Py_NotImplementedStruct' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libshiboken/libshiboken-python2.7.so.1.2.2] Error 1
make[1]: *** [libshiboken/CMakeFiles/libshiboken.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
error: Error compiling shiboken

After some "googling" I concluded that the problem could be solved with add --enable-shared at ./configure options.

Following docs tried to installed Shiboken in several ways, but after failed, tried to find configure in source files which I couldn't.

Please help. Thank you.

Answer 1

The output is showing that it's trying to link against a static python library, rather than a shared one - i.e. libpython2.7.a, rather than libpython2.7.so.

Thus, it's python that needs to be re-compiled with --enable-shared, not shiboken.