In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Russell E. Owen wrote: > > Are there any tips or tricks to building 3rd party python extensions on > > MacOS X 10.4 in such a way that 10.3 users can use them? > > It can be done, but I think it's PITA > > > <http://pythonmac.org/packages/> has most or all the extensions I need, > > but some of the ones I use are fairly outdated (especially numarray). So > > another option is to contribute modern versions built on 10.3 before I > > upgrade. But I'm not sure how practical that is; I only have 10.3/Python > > 2.3 > > Installing 2.4.1 from undefined.org/python is pretty trivial. > > In fact, using the 2.4.1 Framework build for OS-X 10.3, and installing > it on both 10.3 and 10.4 might well do what you want. I know the 10.3 > stuff will all run on 10.4, it's just a question of what C libs get > linked if you build on 10.4, using the 10.3 Python. I suspect that if > you use distutils, it might all work, but if you build everything on > 10.3, you're all set. > > > with instructions on how to create > > the package. > > This is very easy for anything that builds with distutils. Py2App comes > with bdist_mpkg, which will build a *.mpkg from setup.py. The only > tricky part is external libs. For instance, for matplotlib, I need to > make sure it statically linked libpng and libfreetype, so that the > package would run on a stock OS-X. > > It would be great if you contributed some upgraded packages to pythonmac. Gladly! Mostly I want to see numarray 1.5 there. It has C code and links to LAPACK and BLAS. So...do I somehow need to make it statically link? If so, how do I do that? The instructions for building numarray don't say and several searches on the topic didn't turn up anything. As to Ronald Oussoren's reply: you're absolutely right. I'll have to keep a MacOS X 10.3 machine around anyway for testing, so I might as well build the application on that. Sigh. -- Russell _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
