Well thanks again to Ralf for doing some of the MacOSX work... and figuring out how to install the latest Python as a framework. Good news is... * Extensions and libboost_python build and link. That is the ones that compile. * Of the ones that produce an extension they are loaded by the Python interpreter. * Of the ones that load, some of them seem to run to completion, and what looks like without errors. Bad news... * Only a small number of them compile. The single compile problem is this error: In file included from /net/taipan/scratch1/grafik/boost/boost/python/class.hpp:11, from args.cpp:10: /net/taipan/scratch1/grafik/boost/boost/python/bases.hpp:19: parse error before numeric constant /net/taipan/scratch1/grafik/boost/boost/python/bases.hpp:24: confused by earlier errors, bailing out * Of the ones that compile and load, the majority seem to just hang there doing nothing for some time. After some short period of time (~1 minute) I killed the Python interpreter. Don't know why this is, but it could be something as silly as it deciding to open a dialog box I can't see and is waiting for never to arrive feedback. There is one change I had to make to Boost.Python code to even get this far: Index: rvalue_from_python_data.hpp =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/boost/boost/boost/python/converter/rvalue_from_python_data.hpp,v retrieving revision 1.10 diff -b -u -2 -r1.10 rvalue_from_python_data.hpp --- rvalue_from_python_data.hpp 12 Oct 2002 15:37:33 -0000 1.10 +++ rvalue_from_python_data.hpp 31 Oct 2002 04:57:49 -0000 @@ -98,5 +98,5 @@ && !defined(BOOST_PYTHON_SYNOPSIS) /* Synopsis' OpenCXX has trouble parsing this */ // This must always be a POD struct with m_data its first member. - BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT(BOOST_PYTHON_OFFSETOF(rvalue_from_python_storage<T>,stage1) == 0); + //BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT(BOOST_PYTHON_OFFSETOF(rvalue_from_python_storage<T>,stage1) == 0); # endif If that BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT is not commented out the compiler chokes with an can't-do-that/unimplemented error. I'm attachinng the test output just in case it usefull in some form. The setup for compilation is like so: PYTHON_ROOT=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 PYTHON_VERSION=2.3 -- grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- rrivera@acm.org - grafik@redshift-software.com -- 102708583@icq - Grafik666@AIM - Grafik@jabber.org