On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Rob Hetland wrote: > I'm trying out the brand new python2.5b2. One of the reasons I am > excited to upgrade is that ctypes are included in the new python, > and this is pretty hard to get going by hand on the intel Macs > because of an absent libffi.
Also, it's not "hard to get going". The 0.9.9.9 release [1] should work fine, and I know from experience that the SVN trunk [2] also works fine. Hard to find perhaps, because the ctypes site hasn't been updated... but the sourceforge link on the ctypes homepage does lead you to the most recent release. FYI, I think that all current versions of ctypes still have stack alignment bugs on Mac OS X i386 that will cause unexpected crashes. Ronald fixed these bugs in the PyObjC libffi, but I don't believe that those fixes have migrated to ctypes yet. [1] http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71702 [2] http://svn.python.org/view/ctypes/trunk/ctypes/ -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
