On Feb 12, 2008 12:14 AM, Damian Eads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Cournapeau wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 22:50 -0700, Damian Eads wrote: > >> Dear Lou, > >> > >> You may want to try using distutils or setuputils, which makes compiling > >> extensions much easier. It does the hard work of finding out which flags > >> are needed to compile extensions on the host platform. There are many > >> examples on the web on how to use distutils to build C extensions > >> (http://docs.python.org/ext/building.html). > > > > Unfortunately, this does not work. Distutils only knows how to build > > python extensions, not shared libraries. Depending on the platform, this > > is not the same thing, and mac os X is such a platform where both are > > not the same. > > > > cheers, > > > > David > > Really? distutils generates .so files for me, which I assume are shared > libraries. FYI: I'm running Fedora 8 on an x86. Does distutils not > generate a shared library on a mac?
Python extension modules are shared libraries, yes. But they must follow a particular format, namely exposing a correct "init<modulename>" function. distutils/setuptools only maked Python extension modules, not arbitrary shared libraries. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
