[Distutils] linking modules to a shared library

[Stephen Langer]

On Oct 2, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On 30-sep-2005, at 19:57, Stephen Langer wrote:
>
>>    g++ -o _othermodule.so othermodule.C -lBase -bundle -undefined
>> dynamic_lookup -flat_namespace
>>
>
> Don't use -flat_namespace. Search the pythonmac SIG archives if you  
> want a more elaborate rant :-).

Ok, I won't.  I was just guessing based on what I'd seen elsewhere.


>>
>> Is it possible to create libBase portably with distutils?  It's
>> possible to do it on Linux by  subclassing build_ext.build_ext and
>> explicitly using self.compiler.compile() and
>> self.compiler.link_shared_lib() to build the shared library before
>> calling build_ext.build_ext.build_extensions().  But the same thing
>> on Mac OS X only creates libBase.so, whereas I need it to create
>> libBase.dylib.
>>
>
> I don't know if this is possible, although I'd guess it is not.

That's too bad.  Is there a reason for it?  I'd volunteer to work on  
modifying distutils so that it can build a .dylib, but I am not an  
expert on library formats.  I don't really know the difference  
between a .so and a .dylib, except that one of them works and the  
other doesn't.  Can someone point me in the direction of a good  
reference on the topic?

Thanks.

  -- Steve

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