distutils, shared libraries and Mac OS X

[Just van Rossum]

Matthew King wrote:
> 
> Hi.  I was just installing Sketch on Mac OS X 10.1.1 and ran into the
> following problem with Python 2.1.1 distutils.
> 
> Shared libraries on OS X have the .dylib extension and because of this
> find_library_file() was failing to find my tcl/tk libraries...
> 
> As a fix, in distutils/unixccompiler.py I made the following change:
> 
> 76c76,78
> <
> ---
>  >     import sys
>  >     if sys.platform[:-1] == "darwin": # Mac OS X
>  >         shared_lib_extension = ".dylib"
> 
> this worked, but I'm curious if there was a better way to do it?
> 
> any advice would be appreciated.

Ask your question on the MacPython list, there are more people there
that might be able to help. Tkinter support on OSX is still experimental,
so I don't think it'll be easy.

Just