HOM from shell in macOS

[jamesr]

Hi there,

Has anyone had any success with importing the hou module from python in a shell on macOS? I am currently running Mojave 10.14.1 with stock python 2.7.10 (fresh OS install) on my laptop, and have not been able to get it up and running. I found a couple of threads related to it from a few years ago suggesting it's not possible, but I sort of figured it would be mentioned in the docs that it's incompatible on macOS. So maybe I'm missing something? 

Python 2.7.10 (default, Aug 17 2018, 17:41:52) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.0 (clang-1000.0.42)] on darwin
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>>> import hou
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH $ORIGIN/. in /Applications/Houdini/Houdini17.0.352/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries/libopenvdb_sesi.dylib being ignored in restricted program because it is a relative path
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH $ORIGIN/. in /Applications/Houdini/Houdini17.0.352/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries/libopenvdb_sesi.dylib being ignored in restricted program because it is a relative path
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH $ORIGIN/. in /Applications/Houdini/Houdini17.0.352/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries/libopenvdb_sesi.dylib being ignored in restricted program because it is a relative path
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH $ORIGIN/. in /Applications/Houdini/Houdini17.0.352/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries/libopenvdb_sesi.dylib being ignored in restricted program because it is a relative path
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH $ORIGIN/. in /Applications/Houdini/Houdini17.0.352/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries/libopenvdb_sesi.dylib being ignored in restricted program because it is a relative path
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH $ORIGIN in /Applications/Houdini/Houdini17.0.352/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries/./libblosc.1.dylib being ignored in restricted program because it is a relative path
dyld: warning, LC_RPATH $ORIGIN in /Applications/Houdini/Houdini17.0.352/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries/libblosc.dylib being ignored in restricted program because it is a relative path
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Applications/Houdini/Current/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py", line 19, in <module>
    import _hou
ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/Houdini/Current/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/houdini/python2.7libs/_hou.so, 2): Library not loaded: /Users/prisms/builder-new/WeeklyDevToolsHEAD/dev_tools/local/lib/libz.1.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/Houdini/Houdini17.0.352/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Libraries/libAlembic_sidefx.1.7.9.dylib
  Reason: image not found

According to the docs, you need to 

import DLFCN
    sys.setdlopenflags(old_dlopen_flags | DLFCN.RTLD_GLOBAL)

But there is no DLFCN module for macOS.
Python docs suggest generating DLFCN if it's not available, though /usr/include does not exist. I'm not really familiar with these dl related commands.

I found this link and tried to just manually replace

DLFCN.RTLD_GLOBAL

to -1, which got rid of a lot of errors except  

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Applications/Houdini/Current/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py", line 19, in <module>
    import _hou
ImportError: image not already loaded

I also tried the otool steps here which did not seem to change anything. Not really sure where to go from here. 

Thanks!!

[Stalkerx777]

Don't complicate life, just use the Hython interpreter unless you absolutely must stick to system's Python.

[jamesr]

The problem is that I'd like to run HOM functions in a standalone python application among some other more generic python code. 

Edited November 9, 2018 by jamesr

[akelian]

I had the same issue if someone comes find this thread on google, the issue is still there and you have a simple way to solve it:

https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/72778/