librocket GUI support

[Odexi]

I am having a similar issue. I have the last dev version of panda3d installed from the deb package, Ubuntu Trusty. I ran an example code and python complained that it could not find libboost_python-py27a.so
I tried to solve by installing the libboost-python package and now it complains that

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “test3.py”, line 5, in
from _rocketcore import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/panda3d/libboost_python.so.1.48.0: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_FromEncodedObject

I am not sure what went wrong. Interestingly, before the current version of panda3d, I installed the 1.8.1 version from sources, then removed it via rm, and installed this latest version. I never installed librocket though.

Also:

$ ls ////libboost
/usr/lib/panda3d/libboost_python.so.1.48.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_date_time.so.1.54.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python.a
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py27.a
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py27.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py27.so.1.54.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py34.a
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py34.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py34.so.1.54.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.54.0

[Odexi]

Further on this topic. It seems that there is some incompatibility somehow.

According to these pages where the same error was reported to occurr in other applications
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11051
http://www.esrf.eu/mail_archives/tango/archive/msg04341.html

the error appears because the boost was compiled with a python interpreter that set Py_UNICODE_SIZE to 2,
while evidently the version installed in my computer (python2.7.6) has the above macro set to 4. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 less than a month ago, so this must be some recent settings.

I am wondering if there is a way to get around this problem.