[C++-sig] OS X boost.python tutorial question

[Gary Robinson]

Some of this is a repeat of an early question, but I really need an answer if
one is available to be had. We want to use boost.py in our product, Goombah
(http://www.python.com). We have it working on Windows, and have C code working
in the product that uses boost.python on Windows. But we need it to work on OS X
too if we're going to use it, since Goombah is a cross-platform product.

I have built boost.python successfully (at least it gives no "failure" or
"skipped" messages). I did it by going to the root boost directory and entering:

bjam "-sPYTHON_ROOT=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3"
"-sPYTHON_VERSION=2.3" "-sTOOLS=darwin" "-sBUILD=debug release"

I then went to the ../examples/tutorial folder and ran bjam with the same
arguments, and that  too seemed to complete successfully.

hello.so was created and was in the directory
/Users/garyrob/Desktop/boost_1_32_0/bin/boost/libs/python/example/tutorial/hello
.so/darwin/release/shared-linkable-true/hello.so

However the tutorial text explicitly states that libboost_python.so will be
created too. No such file was created.  I don't know whether the it's the
documentation that's in error or whether something didn't work right in the
build. Can someone tell me which is the case?

When I enter interactive python and try to import the hello module, I get:

 import hello Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: Failure linking new module:
../../../bin/boost/libs/python/build/libboost_python.dylib/darwin/release/shared
-linkable-true/libboost_python.dylib: dyld: python can't open library:
../../../bin/boost/libs/python/build/libboost_python.dylib/darwin/release/shared
-linkable-true/libboost_python.dylib  (No such file or directory, errno = 2)


libboost_python.dylib was created, and is in the stated location (if ../../..
means ~/Desktop/boost_1_32_0/ on my machine). So I don't know why it's giving me
an error:

ls -l
~/Desktop/boost_1_32_0/bin/boost/libs/python/build/libboost_python.dylib/darwin/
release/shared-linkable-true/libboost_python.dylib -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  staff 
1102392 24 Jun 09:53
/Users/garyrob/Desktop/boost_1_32_0/bin/boost/libs/python/build/libboost_python.
dylib/darwin/release/shared-linkable-true/libboost_python.dylib
Gary-Robinsons-Computer:~/Desktop/boost_1_32_0/bin/boost/libs/python/example/
tutorial/hello.so/darwin/release/shared-linkable-true garyrob$


If anyone can help me get the tutorial working I'd really appreciate it.

Gary