On Jul 27, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > 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.
libffi for ctypes and PyObjC are the same, at least in the python repository. I don't know if Thomas has ported those changes back to the ctypes repository or has made a release that includes those changes. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
