[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg with C sources

[Robert Kern]

Jonathan Peirce wrote:
> I'm wanting to make a mac installer for a python library I maintain that 
> contains some C extensions and I'm not clear how to go about it since 
> setup for bdist_mpkg doesn't accept ext_module.
> 
> Does anyone have a simple-ish example of how to do this? Or will it be 
> that bdist_mpkg will one day just act like the regular distutils bdist? 
> Obviously ideally I would like not to have a separate setup.py for each 
> platform I support - would be much nicer to have a single script like 
> the one below (which does successfully build a mac binary distribution 
> using bdist, just not the double-clickable installer)

I have built upwards of 40-ish packages with extension modules and 
packaged them with bdist_mpkg. I have found no such problem. Can you 
describe the actual problem that you are seeing in more detail?

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Robert Kern
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