[Pythonmac-SIG] Newbie Mac Question

[Karl Merkley]

Thanks.  I'll take a look at that.  Like I said "newbie."  I don't even 
know what questions to ask yet!

	Karl

On Oct 8, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Oct 8, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Karl Merkley wrote:
>
>> I have an application that I am porting to the Mac.  On Linux it 
>> requires that I link against libpython.so.  It  appears that Mac OS X 
>> 10.3 does not include a libpython.dylib.   I _think_ I would like to 
>> stay compatible with the native python on the Mac.  What is the 
>> correct method for getting the shared library?  Assuming that I have 
>> to build it myself, what set of source do I download and build?  Are 
>> there any gotchas that I need to be aware of?
>
> Python on the Mac is built as a framework, which is linked to with 
> -framework Python rather than -lpython.  You should be asking 
> distutils how to link against Python.  Take a look at:
>
> >>> import distutils.sysconfig
> >>> distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars()
>
> I believe the keys used for embedding python are LINKFORSHARED and 
> CFLAGSFORSHARED.
>
> -bob
>
>