[Pythonmac-SIG] importing dynamic library on intelMac

[David Worrall]

Thanks all for your advice. I've solved the problem; the library  
compiles and now includes the shared libraries directory.
Turns out the problem I had was with scons.

David

On 02/09/2006, at 1:17 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On 29-aug-2006, at 8:09, David Worrall wrote:
>
>> Hello All, I'm new here... and to dynamic libraries....
>>
>> I've compiled a 3rd party's dynamic library ,  libXXX.dylib , a Mach-
>> O dynamically linked shared library i386
>> and can't work out where to put it so that I can
>>>>> import XXX
>> is there a special place for such libraries?
>> I've tried a few things without success. Would someone be kind enough
>> to put me on the right path -
>
> You can't, unless the library is a python extension. There are  
> python bindings for numereous libraries, you can look for one in  
> the cheeseshop (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi) or using google  
> (not everything is listed in the cheeseshop).
>
> You can also look at http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/ 
> index.html to see if the library you want to use is already  
> available in a precompiled form.
>
> Ronald
>

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