[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: python & macOS X

Jeffrey P Shell jeffrey@Digicool.com
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:31:17 -0500


> Which will be the main difficulties in compiling and installing on MacOS X the
> Python system that runs on linux?

I assume you mean running at the Unix level (aka Darwin).

The main difficulty is that MacOS X / Darwin is too new to be recognized by
the Python configuration scripts, although the notes at xclave.macnn.com
(see link below) might address this issue.  I can't get MacOS X DP2 and
MacOS X Server happily residing on the same machine yet, so I haven't tried
building on MacOS X for quite some time.  I don't think there's any TKinter
support either, but I may be wrong on that.  But for what's been done so far
on MacOS X Server, here's a few resources that I know of.

See my notes at
http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/buildingZopeOnMacOSXServer
(it discusses building a threaded (no problem) shared lib (small problem) on
MacOS X Server - basically building a Zope friendly Python.  It assumes
basic knowledge of configuring Python for compilation).

Or here http://xclave.macnn.com/Features/QuickNDirty/ (although they don't
discuss the LDFLAGs problem when compiling shared libraries).

There's an installable (no threads, no shared libs) package on Softrak
http://softrak.stepwise.com/Apps/WebObjects/Softrak (search for 'Python').

-- 
Jeffrey P Shell, jeffrey@Digicool.com
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