Discovered as part of #1527:
E:\Xpra\trunk\src\dist>xpra_cmd proxy --no-daemon 2019-08-27 07:56:31,661 created named pipe: \\.\pipe\Xpra\Main load_module(gi.repository.GLib) is_registered=<built-in method is_registered of gi.Repository object at 0x000000 0003fc2ad0> xpra main error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/scripts/main.py", line 110, in main return run_mode(script_file, err, options, args, mode, defaults) File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/scripts/main.py", line 445, in run_mode return run_server(error_cb, options, mode, script_file, args, current_display) File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/scripts/server.py", line 446, in run_server return do_run_server(error_cb, opts, mode, xpra_file, extra_args, desktop_display) File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/scripts/server.py", line 932, in do_run_server app = make_proxy_server() File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/scripts/server.py", line 338, in make_proxy_server from xpra.server.proxy.proxy_server import ProxyServer File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/server/proxy/proxy_server.py", line 33, in <module> glib = import_glib() File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/gtk_common/gobject_compat.py", line 118, in import_glib return _try_import(import_glib3, import_glib2) File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/gtk_common/gobject_compat.py", line 64, in _try_import return trygtk3() File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/gtk_common/gobject_compat.py", line 60, in trygtk3 return import_method_gtk3() File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src/xpra/gtk_common/gobject_compat.py", line 109, in import_glib3 from gi.repository import GLib #@UnresolvedImport File "E:\Xpra\trunk\src\dist\lib\gi\importer.py", line 136, in load_module 'introspection typelib not found' % namespace) ImportError: cannot import name GLib, introspection typelib not found
Something must be missing and the gi importer is making it extremely painful to figure out what that is.
The typelib has the correct spelling on disk:
# ls -la /c/msys64/mingw64/lib/girepository-1.0/GLib-2.0.typelib -rw-r--r-- 1 Win7 Pro 64 None 193168 Jun 17 07:18 /c/msys64/mingw64/lib/girepository-1.0/GLib-2.0.typelib
But cx_freeze messes it up:
# ls -la lib/girepository-1.0/GLib* -rw-r--r-- 1 Win7 Pro 64 None 193168 Jun 17 07:18 lib/girepository-1.0/Glib-2.0.typelib
The lowercase 'l' in Glib
breaks everything.
Workaround in r23592.
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/2393