[Pythonmac-SIG] Using distutils with XCode

[Chris Barker]

Paul Kinnane wrote:
> the distutils on OSX10.4.  I don't have CodeWarrior 7 and wondered if it
> was possible to manually compile the library using XCode?  I see it is
> possible using MPW
> (http://www.nevada.edu/~cwebster/Python/MPWHOWTO/MPWHOWTO.html) -

that is a very old doc, and only applies to OS-9 and below.

On OS-X, the standard way to compile python is with Apple's gcc. 
provided with the XCode package.

you should be able to do a simple:

python setup.py build

at the command line, if you want to use the Apple-provided python. If 
you've installed python2.4.1, then do:

python2.4 setup.py build

or

/usr/local/python setup.py build

depending on how your PATH is set.

If this doesn't work, post your errors, and we'll see what we can 
suggest. If the code works with gcc on other systems (Cygwin, Linux, 
etc), then there is a good chance it will work on OS-X. If it's only 
been compiled with MS compiler, it may need some tweaking.

-Chris


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