[Pythonmac-SIG] Someone had PIL trouble on i386 10.4.6 Python 2.4 IIRC--I succeeded this evening

[Christopher Barker]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> The libs should all be statically linked to the extensions, they 
> shouldn't be separate in the installer.

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> I'd prefer to have fully self contained packages, and preferably
> eggs at that. Having a shared libary makes it *harder* to independendly
> update extensions using libpng or libfreetype.

No one answered my question directly, but both Bob and Ronald have spoken:

It's better for each package to statically link any libs it needs 
(unless Apple provides them), even though that means that a given python 
program may well end up using three copies of the same lib.

Just to be totally clear: Is there any problem with the same program 
using three slightly different versions of the same lib?

> I'll have to package up my package build script one of these days ;-)

What does it do? Something different than bdist_mpkg ?

Daniel Lord wrote:
> I built Universal jpeg-6b, freetype2, and zlib for my current project  
> of Universal PIL. I can add libpng in easily so I'll do it.
> So that makes jpeg, png, freetype, and zlib. What else?

Those are the ones I need at the moment. Thanks! I guess a zip archive 
of the collection would be the best way to get it out there.

> I have successfully packaged up a Universal PIL for 2.4 (thanks for  
> the tips Bob;-). Packaged--not tested yet on PPC and Intel so I am  
> closer to releasing it.

Post a link to it here when you are ready so we can test it.

Maybe it would be helpful to have a standard way to link static libs 
with our packages. What I've done for matplotlib is create a 
"StaticLibs" directory at the same level as the setup./py, then hacked 
the setup.py to include it in the linking (and header) paths.

I'll probably create one that has all of the above libs in it, then I 
can add a symlink to it for each package I'm trying to build.

If anyone has any better ideas, I'd be glad to hear them.

-Chris




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