Maya 2013 and external Python modules

Patrick · January 10, 2013, 12:59pm

I was hoping someone here could help me figure out if Maya 2013 is worth recompiling numpy, PIL and a short list of other Python modules I need to make Maya do what my art team is used to doing. The problem is that Maya 2013 uses a version of Python compiled with VS2010:mad:, while every Python module I’ve ever seen is compiled using VS2008.

My choices are:
Convince the art team that Maya 2012 is good enough
or
Convince an engineer to help me compile Python modules using VS2010

I’ve searched the internet for answers and modules to help me make this decision, but I’ve come down to these two options.

Any advice, comments or experience is welcome, thanks.

TheMaxx · January 10, 2013, 1:45pm

that pretty much sums it up. All of the modules and plugins we use we have recompiled against 2010. Some are painful, some arent Its not only python modules but maya plugins. They also need to be recompiled with the 2013 sdk and 2013.5 when it becomes more popular.

nature · January 10, 2013, 3:32pm

Does anyone happen to have a working pywin32 for Maya 2013 64 bit ? Thank you.

btribble · January 10, 2013, 6:15pm

This is why we’re still on 2012, and will be for the foreseeable future…

TheMaxx · January 11, 2013, 10:48am

Its stupid, they didnt even go to 2.7 or anything significant. You just have to recompile to use your existing stuff and get no other benefits for your troubles.

nature · January 11, 2013, 11:21am

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Count_Zr0 · July 2, 2013, 1:09pm

What about 2014 with Python 2.7.3?

TheMaxx · July 2, 2013, 2:40pm

You’re still going to need to compile your own. What did you need PIL for, just out of curiosity?

Give pip a shot and see if it builds:

open a VS command prompt
cd to Maya 2014\bin
Download distribute from python-distribute.org - python distribute Resources and Information.
Run distribute_setup.py with mayapy.exe
Download pip from https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
run get-pip.py with mayapy.exe
Try pip install [package]

Pillow fails to support jpeg, tiff, and zlib unless you get the libs for those and wire it up. I tried, but ran out of time
Numpy may work though.

Count_Zr0 · July 3, 2013, 5:28pm

Was looking for pywin32 compiled for Maya’s 2.7.3 ("If you want to use pywin32 you will most likely need to rebuild it locally with VS 2010Sp1 ").

Sorry, should have been more specific.

TheMaxx · July 4, 2013, 9:43pm

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pywin32

just in case you hadn’t tried this before

Count_Zr0 · July 8, 2013, 10:14am

Yeah, nope. All compiled with VS2008. Thanks though.

I’m finding it very difficult to compile with VS2010. Let you know if I succeed.

cakesson · September 5, 2013, 5:05pm

Had to recompile PIL and cx_Oracle for Maya 2014 64 bit recently.
Wrote up the steps I went through on both. You can download the results at the bottom of each walk through.

PIL
cx_Oracle

/Christian Akesson