[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: [ctypes-users] need help on Mac OS X

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Aug 27 22:28:27 CEST 2004



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> From: Thomas Heller <theller at python.net>
> Date: August 27, 2004 3:43:02 PM EDT
> To: ctypes-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [ctypes-users] need help on Mac OS X
>
> Mac OS X is the only platform I have access to (*) that has a big 
> endian
> architecture, where I was able to compile Python 2.3, and where it is
> possible to build libffi.  I have also seen related problems (**) on
> sparc solaris, also on SF, but I was not able to compile Python 2.3 on
> that system - py23 is now required by ctypes.
>
> I changed the unittests to do better error detecting, and now a lot of
> them fails.  I think this is a byte order problem, and probably I'm
> using libffi in some wrong way.
>
> I would very much appreciate help from people using the Mac, or maybe
> also other big endian architectures - I cannot spend even more time 
> with
> this.  Please grab the source from CVS (or wait a few days for the 
> 0.9.1
> release) and try to find the problems.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>
> (*) on the sourceforge compile farm.  Slow as molasses.
>
> (**) IIRC, I got seg faults due accesses to unaligned data types.
>
>
>
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