On May 27, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Kent Quirk wrote: > I can't find where you said that extensions shouldn't be linking to > Python at all. I also can't understand how this could be the case, at > least if we're building the extensions using Boost.Python (which we > are).
When I said it shouldn't be linking to Python, I also said what linker flags should be used: -undefined dynamic_lookup > I've tried to build without linking to it, and it compiles but I > end up > with a bunch of missing symbols from Python. > > When we started this whole project about a year and a half ago, > distutils basically didn't work. We now have several extensions and > over > 100K lines of complex C++ code distributed in several hundred files > in a > cross-platform application. We had a difficult enough time getting > XCode > to handle it. After staring at what passes for distutils documentation > for a while, I can't even figure out if it will handle a Boost.Python > extension, and trying to get it to do our complete build seems like > great way to waste several days. > > We finally did it manually. After the call to setup(), our setup.py > iterates over the constructed modules in the built .app using macholib > to find all the occurrences of /Libraries/Frameworks/Python.framework > etc and convert them to @executable_path/../Frameworks. > > What I had hoped for was some hint along the lines of "here's how you > can convince py2app to do that for you automatically." It should do it automatically, but you shouldn't have those references in the first place. So, there is a problem somewhere, but the obvious solution to that particular problem is to link the extensions correctly. > OS X documentation is generally of the class that you only know > what you > need to know after you've already found it (and tried a zillion wrong > answers). It's really pretty horrible to figure this stuff out for the > first time. Which is why I always recommend to stick to a path where disutils and py2app do all the work... -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
