On 6/28/18, 5:39 AM, "Joshua Root" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2018-6-28 18:54 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> macOS has been around for over 17 years. It would be weird if in all that
time Python hasn't developed an easy way to create correct dylibs. My
assumption therefore is that such an easy method does exist, I just don't know
what it is since I'm not very familiar with Python.
Python (or specifically distutils) generally has no need to create
dylibs; it's only concerned with building extension modules, which on
macOS are mach-o bundles.
Most if not all of our modifications and extensions to distutils are due to
that. We have many python extension modules, each of which links to one or
more shared libraries, each of which is built from many C++ sources. We tried
to contact the distutils developers when we started using it, 10 or 15 years
ago, but they were uninterested in adding shared library support or in helping
us add it.
-- Steve
