> First question: Is it possible to link against a normally built Python > extension? > > More specifically, I want to pass the '.so' file of some Python extension > as an extra link argument to the 'weave.inline' function. This seems to > work quite well on Linux. But I suspect, on Mac OS X the answer is 'no'. > I just want this confirmed.
No. That's not the right way to do it anyway, you need to make a table of pointers available as a PyCObject or similar and get at it that way. Look at how something like Numeric exports its interface. > Second question: Can I use distutils right out-of-the-box to create a > dynamically linked shared library on OS X? I doubt it. Even if you could, don't do that. It's not portable and the search paths for dynamic libraries are relative to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and the executable, so you wouldn't be ab -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig