Problem even starting pronterface on Mac OS X

[Paul Bristow]

Hi,

I'm finally trying to get my Shapercube V2.0, #36 up and running.

I'm using Mac OS X Lion on my laptop for driving it.

The instructions are less than detailed on the software side.  Going from my original instructions I finally got ReplicatorG to run on my mac (don't ask - a software conflict that I should not have forgotten) only to find that now pronterface is the preferred option.

However, when I try to run pronterface I get this cryptic error. 

$ python pronterface.py 

WX is not installed. This program requires WX to run.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "pronterface.py", line 13, in <module>

    import wx

  File "/usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.12.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wx/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>

    from wx._core import *

  File "/usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.12.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 4, in <module>

    import _core_

ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.12.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wx/_core_.so, 2): no suitable image found.  Did find:

/usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.12.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wx/_core_.so: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

Needless to say, wx is installed, using the version that is "guaranteed to work" :-(

Any clues?

Thanks,

Paul

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[zapgadget]

Never mind.  I found the solution.  It's

arch -i386 python pronterface.py 

as the command under Lion.

Cheers,

Paul

[Joachim Glauche]

Hi,

yes, either that, or set the environmental python preference to 32 bit
as described in the README, with:
defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Prefer-32-Bit -bool yes

Best Regards,
Joachim Glauche