How to link a C extension module on Mac OS X?

[Gerhard Häring]

Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) wrote:
> Gerhard Häring wrote:
> 
>> Two words: Use distutils.
> 
> And it turns out that, rather unintuitively, the way distutils
> does it is that it *doesn't* try to create a dynamic library,
> just an ordinary object file named with a .so suffix...

Does that mean that distutils doesn't work on OS X?

-- Gerhard