[Pythonmac-SIG] ctypes for Intel-base Macs?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 20, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Dethe Elza wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to get ctypes working on my new Macbook Pro under Python  
> 2.4.
>   It works under Python 2.5beta, so I assume the porting work has been
> done somewhere, but does not work with the downloadable version of
> ctypes (libffi won't build):
>
>> configure: error: "libffi has not been ported to i686-apple- 
>> darwin8.7.1."
>
> I've tried getting libffi via darwinports, but it reports the same  
> error:
>
>> configure: error: libffi has not been ported to i386-apple- 
>> darwin8.7.1.
>
> I've tried to find the libffi shared library in Python2.5 to see if I
> could build ctypes around that, but all I could find was _ctypes.so.
> Maybe I could build around that, but I don't know what pieces I  
> need to
> copy over.
>
> Any ideas for how I can get a working ctypes under 2.4 would be  
> appreciated.

I'm pretty sure that the version in Python 2.5 still has some i386  
stack alignment bugs. Ronald has fixed them for PyObjC, but I don't  
think that work has migrated to ctypes yet.

The version in http://svn.python.org/projects/ctypes/trunk/ctypes/  
seems to be in sync with Python 2.5.

-bob