I have patches for xulrunner/trunk, but must get into a meeting, ping me 
later/tomorrow.
Shane

Mark Hammond wrote:
> From memory, trying to use a XULRunner build in this way is tricky, due to
>  the directory layout used by that tech.  It might be necessary to dig into
>  _xpcom.cpp to see exactly what directory we are calling NS_InitXPCOM2()
>  with, and if that directory is appropriate for a xulrunner app.
>  
>  Mark
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: pyxpcom-bounces@[...].com
>  [mailto:pyxpcom-bounces@[...].com]On Behalf Of Ryan Sturmer
>  Sent: Friday, 6 July 2007 6:17 AM
>  To: pyxpcom@[...].com
>  Subject: [pyxpcom] 'import components' issue with xpcom and python 2.5.1
>  
>  
>  I'm working on windows, and I've got an import problem,
>  
>  when I call:
>  
>  from xpcom import components
>  
>  I get an error:
>  
>  C:\Documents and Settings\rsturmer\My Documents\src\<ipython console> in
>  <module>()
>  
>  C:\mozilla-src-vc71\mozilla\obj-i686-pc-mingw32\dist\bin\python\xpcom\compon
>  ents.py in <module>()
>      229
>      230 # import xpcom.shutdown late as it depends on us!
>  --> 231 import shutdown
>      232 shutdown.register(_on_shutdown)
>      233
>  
>  C:\mozilla-src-vc71\mozilla\obj-i686-pc-mingw32\dist\bin\python\xpcom\shutdo
>  wn.py in <module>()
>       49 _handlers = []
>       50
>  ---> 51 class _ShutdownObserver:
>       52     _com_interfaces_ = interfaces.nsIObserver
>       53     def observe(self, service, topic, extra):
>  
>  C:\mozilla-src-vc71\mozilla\obj-i686-pc-mingw32\dist\bin\python\xpcom\shutdo
>  wn.py in _ShutdownObserver()
>       50
>       51 class _ShutdownObserver:
>  ---> 52     _com_interfaces_ = interfaces.nsIObserver
>       53     def observe(self, service, topic, extra):
>       54         logger = logging.getLogger('xpcom')
>  
>  C:\mozilla-src-vc71\mozilla\obj-i686-pc-mingw32\dist\bin\python\xpcom\compon
>  ents.py in __getattr__(self, attr)
>      101         if self._dict_data is not None and
>  self._dict_data.has_key(attr):
>      102             return self._dict_data[attr]
>  --> 103         return self._get_one(attr)
>      104     def __getitem__(self, item):
>      105         if self._dict_data is not None and
>  self._dict_data.has_key(item):
>  
>  C:\mozilla-src-vc71\mozilla\obj-i686-pc-mingw32\dist\bin\python\xpcom\compon
>  ents.py in _get_one(self, name)
>      151             # Present a better exception message, and give a more
>  useful error code.
>      152             import nsError
>  --> 153             raise xpcom.COMException(nsError.NS_ERROR_NO_INTERFACE,
>  "The interface '%s' does not exist" % (name,))
>      154         return _Interface(item.GetName(), item.GetIID())
>      155
>  
>  <class 'xpcom.Exception'>: -2147467262 (-2147467262)
>  
>  It apparently can't find the interface.... I went into the /dist/bin/python
>  directory, (I'm using the latest trunk, as of a week or so ago) and mucked
>  about with the source a bit (just put some debug print statements in there)
>  The interface it can't find is the nsIObserver, which makes me think maybe
>  python simply can't find the component registry?  I've made sure that
>  /dist/bin and /dist/bin/python are on my path... it doesn't have any
>  (apparent) issue finding xpcom.dll and its kin, but I get this import error
>  everytime I try to do anything.
>  
>  The odd thing is, I've successfully built an example program with xulrunner,
>  where I have a button that when pressed, calls out to an xpcom component
>  written in python, that returns a random number that's displayed with a
>  javascript alert....that component calls the same import, but when executed,
>  apparently doesn't give me any trouble, because it performs its intended
>  function.
>  
>  It's obnoxious not to be able to work these things interactively from within
>  the python shell.  Any clues?
>  
>  --
>  "The preceding program contained violent scenes of a graphic nature.  Time
>  travelers with nervous dispositions may wish to listen to something else for
>  the past half hour."
>  -John Marsh
>  "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
>  
>  Ryan Sturmer
>  ryansturmer@[...].com
>  http://www.gogglemarks.net/
>  
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