The Source Distribution (sdist) repository for the FBXSDK Python Bindings
**Packages for the Source Distribution and wheels (prebuilt binaries) can be installed with pip (see Install)**
**A source packages can be built and installed with pip (see Install)**
## Install
1. Obtain a [Gitlab Token](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/personal_access_tokens.html#creating-a-personal-access-token) to authenticate to the project pypi repository
2. Run the following command, with `<Gitlab Token>` replaced with your personal token :
If there is no wheel available for your platform, pip will attempt to build from source
To force an install from source, pass the `--no-binary fbxsdkpy` option to pip
This will download the sources from Autodesk website, build them, and install the built package
## Manual Build
Alternatively, the bindings can be built and installed by cloning this repository and running `pip --verbose install .`
### Remarks
## Troubleshooting
- Instead of the libraries and bindings from Autodesk being included in the repository, they are downloaded before building
-`--verbose` is recommended to get the output of the compiler in case of an error. Also, as compilation can take several minutes, `pip` might otherwise seem unresponsive
-`--verbose` is recommended to get the output of the compiler in case of an error. Also, as compilation can take several minutes, `pip` might otherwise seem unresponsive
- On outdated Windows versions, curl is not available, in this case install it from [https://curl.se/](https://curl.se/)
- On Windows, Build Tools are required for compiling, and C++ Redistributables for runtime, they are available individually on Microsoft's website, or with Visual Studio
- On Windows, the installers from Autodesk trigger Permission Requests, if left unanswered they will timeout, the installation will continue without the required files and quietly fail. A solution to run the installation unattended is to do it from an Administrator command line
- For more on runtime errors, see [PyNimation documentation](https://lhoyet.gitlabpages.inria.fr/pynimation/static/overview/troubleshooting.html#importerror-dll-load-failed-while-importing-fbx)
