[Pythonmac-SIG] wxPython universal (was Re: Wiki Formatting)

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Charles,

On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Are you still planning to work on wxPython? That would be great --  
> I can't really use the Universal Python till that works too. I'd be  
> glad to help, and I'm not lazy -- but I sure am ignorant, so I  
> don't think I have much to contribute to this.

I've been able to build wxPython as Universal using the Universal  
Python build from about a week ago, and it works on Tiger, but on  
Panther certain things that are supposed to be initialized at load  
time aren't being initialized. (e.g. wxArtProvider) Weirder yet, when  
I create a C++ app against the exact same DLLs, the initialization  
does happen and everything works fine, so this seems to have  
something to do with the wrappers, either how things are being linked  
in or perhaps some difference in initialization from a straight PPC  
build....

I'll try and take some time out in the not too distant future to  
track this down, and in the meantime some folks are working to get  
the lipo'd binary solution to work for wxWidgets, which could  
possibly resolve the issue. (Though considering the C++ builds work  
fine on Panther, I'm beginning to really suspect there's something  
going on with the wrappers....)

In the meantime, if someone has some debugging tips as to where best  
to start poking around to track this down, it would be greatly  
appreciated. :-)

Thanks,

Kevin

> Charles Hartman
>
>
>
> On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
>> While I'm on the topic, I'm looking into building Universal  
>> binaries of
>> some other packages that depend on other libs. For instance,  
>> matplotlib
>> depends on libpng and libfreetype. In the past, I've built static  
>> libs
>> of those, and then linked MPL against them, getting a nice
>> self-contained package. However, I have no idea how I would go about
>> building Universal static libs, or two sets of libs, or????
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> -Chris
>
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