[Pythonmac-SIG] Help with compiling Mac C extension

[Jack Jansen]

On dinsdag, maart 26, 2002, at 08:37 , Louis M. Pecora wrote:

> RE:   QDRotate.ppc.slb  extension used with Piddle graphics for 
> QuickDraw text rotation.
>
> The Piddle package has an extension (above named) to help with 
> text rotation in the drawstring routine.  This because QD does 
> not rotate text on its own.  The latest version of Python that 
> I installed (2.2) complains that the extension QDRotate.ppc.slb 
> is for a previous version of Python.  I have the original 
> QDrotate code so I tried compiling it with the latest 
> PythonCore.  I've done this before and I had it working in 
> older Pythons but in 2.2 I get a compile error that the 
> Codewarrior project can't find Carbon/Carbonlib.h or other 
> things like that when I try to compile the QDRotate module.  If 
> I define a C variable (compile option WITHOUT_FRAMES) to avoid 
> that include and use what appears to be older Mac stuff, I get 
> several arcane errors that leave me puzzled (things like 
> "numbers beyond range" in other headers).

It sounds like you didn't include the right prefix file in your 
project (mwerks_plugin_config.h for PPC builds, 
mwerks_carbonplugin_config.h for Carbon builds). It defines 
WITHOUT_FRAMEWORKS (I assume WITHOUT_FRAMES is a typo, yes?) and 
for Carbon builds various other defines that are needed to make 
Universal Headers behave correctly for Carbon.

If you look at xx.mcp (in :Mac:Build) it should tell you how to 
modify your old project to work with Python 2.2 and all else 
that has changed in the mean time.
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