[Pythonmac-SIG] P4Python, MySQLdb, or Python Extensions

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Monday, November 19, 2007, at 10:05AM, "sparklight" <ken at sparklight.com> wrote:
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>Lyndsey - I see your resolution to the -framework Carbon problem, I
>discovered that also.  But I'm still groping for the solution to the
>"Inappropriate file type for dynamic loading" problem.  My linker (gcc
>running under the Eclipse IDE) produces a .dylib by default, not a .so, and
>if I simply rename the file, I get the same traceback you got.  Clearly
>.dylib is an Apple dynamic library format, and MacPython 2.4 is not prepared
>to recognize it.  How did you resolve this?  Did going to Python 2.5
>suffice?

Python extensions are bundles (created with 'cc -bundle'), not shared libraries (created with 'cc -shared'). 

BTW. Why not use distutils to build extensions, that will automaticly do the right thing on all platforms.

Ronald