[C++-sig] Can't import boost_python module in Mac OS X

Greg Smolyn greg at smolyn.org
Tue Sep 11 14:34:41 CEST 2007


Hi, I'm having a problem with boost_python and Mac OS X. 
 I'm using the same build system (more or 
less) and on Linux it works just fine. 

I have a simple module:

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(pycov)
{
  def("consensus", consensus, "Build a consensus tree");
}

where consensus is 
std::string consensus(std::string in, double scale)

I build with:
/usr/bin/c++    -g -bundle -headerpad_max_install_names  -o libpycov.so 
"CMakeFiles/pycov.dir/wrappers/python.o" 
-L/Users/smolyn/school/bio/libcov/build/src 
-L/opt/local/lib -lboost_python -F/opt/local/Library/Frameworks 
-framework Python -lcov 

Which produces a proper bundle that links to all the right things:
]]] otool -L libpycov.so   
libpycov.so:
        /opt/local/lib/libboost_python-1_34.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, 
	current version 0.0.0)
        /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/Python 
	(compatibility version 2.4.0, current version 2.4.0)
        /Users/smolyn/school/bio/libcov/build/src/libcov.dylib (compatibility 
	version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.4.0)
        /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.3.9)

BUT, when I try to import it into python, I get the following!

Python 2.4.4 (#1, May 25 2007, 15:00:28) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
]]] import pycov
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: attribute name must be string

Does anyone have _any_ ideas?  I'm stumped, I've tried everything!  
What's weird is this works absolutely 
fine in Linux.

Thanks.
-greg













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