[PySide] cxfreeze and PySide 1.2.0

[John Ehresman]

On 7/10/13 12:36 PM, Joel B. Mohler wrote:

> Aha, this has been an interesting journey to get this all compiled in
> debug.  I have found the problem.
>
>          Shiboken::AutoDecRef atexit(Shiboken::Module::import("atexit"));
>          Shiboken::AutoDecRef regFunc(PyObject_GetAttrString(atexit,
> "register"));
>
> This C-level module import in qtcore_module_wrapper.cpp imports python
> module atexit, but it fails and so the second line crashes because
> atexit is null.  So, easy fix is to include "--include-modules=atexit"
> in the cxfreeze command line.

Yes, that's the way to avoid triggering the bug.

> So, what is the correct fix?  I think that import in sbkmodule.cpp does
> right to set the PyErr, but the calling code copied above originating
> from typesystem_core_common.xml (I think?) doesn't check PyErr_Occurred
> and I don't know how the error should propagate in the abstract
> conditions of typesystem_core_common.xml.

The code needs to check if atexit is NULL and possibly just print a 
warning and continue without registering the handler.  The problem is 
that segfaults can occur at shutdown (I think) if the handler isn't run.

Thanks for tracking this down!

John