WingIDE on Fedora 26 cant find libSDL-1.2.so.0

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thanks so much  for the speedy reply

when in the terminal i did your steps and the last step:

>>> os.environ['LD_LIBRARY_PATH']
Traceback (most recent call last): 
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/os.py", line 669, in __getitem__ raise KeyError(key) from None
KeyError: 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'and:
>>> import wx.dataview as dv
Traceback (most recent call last): 
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/wx/dataview.py", line 12, in <module> from ._dataview import *ImportError: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

so same results as when in WIngIDEI should point out this is the Fedora 26 default 3.6.2, i havent built it myself

i assume that 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH is an environment variable. i searched, and the file exists in /usr/lib. i will try just making an environment variable

Where is libSDL-1.2.so.0 located?  You could add that directory to the env LD_LIBRARY_PATH so wx can find it.  So add LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/the/lib to Environment in Wing's Project Properties.  However, this seems more like a general package installation issue that maybe should be solved rather than worked around with manual configuration.  On Linux if you have all the packages, then the environment should really be set up correctly.  But assuming you also installled Python and wx from official packages then I'm not sure where to look to solve that.

Stepping back a bit... if 'import wx' works, does it work to then access wx.dataview directly?  If so, I would just do that.  It's also conceivable this is a bug in the wx 4 beta, depending on what they do to load .so modules.

this is a brand new installation of fedora  26 in vmware running as virtual machine on a mac, not that i think that mattersmy installation of fedora 26 doesnt HAVE a LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. so now i am trying by adding to wings preferences same code works (osx and windows)  on other platforms so i doubt its wxpython issue

Are the working cases the same fedora and/or same exact wxpython version?  That may help narrow down whether it's a fedora package issue or problem in the wx beta.And yes, there often is no LD_LIBRARY_PATH env by default but it's a way to tell the library loader where to look for libraries it's not finding.

ok. i am kinda new to unix, python and wings all at the same time. things went VERY sommothly on winows and OSx. and now i added tha path to the bash.rc file, and now i get and now i have e=the env var when checking it in terminal using your earlier instructionsand a new error: 

import wx.dataview as dv File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/wx/dataview.py", line 12, in <module> from ._dataview import *builtins.ImportError: libSDL-1.2.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

that ending 32 scares me. this is a 64 bit intsall and I'd have to guess thats an ELFCLASS32 should be ELFCLASS64