Can't compile with --enable-shared on MacOSX

[Maarten Sneep]

In article <6ee58e07.0504180620.4b157ebf at posting.google.com>,
 llothar at web.de (Lothar Scholz) wrote:

> i tried to generate a dynamic library from the official
> Python-2.4.0.tgz on MacOSX 10.3 but when i do the
> 
> ./configure --enable-shared ; make ; sudo make install
> 
> It links statically. It's also strange that i can't find a
> libpython2.4.a in my
> /usr/local/lib. It's not installed by the install command.

On Mac OS X the shared library functionality is obtained through 
frameworks. It may detect this by default, but I'm not sure about 
that. In any case read the install documentation, the correct options 
are mentioned there, or you could just use the pre-built binary 
install from python.org

> I get an error that TK/TCL was not found. Is this the reason, i
> thought i can simply ignore this error message.

Is not the reason, will go away once tcl/tk is installed (there is a 
nice binary installer in the mac os x downloads section at apple.com

Maarten