[Pythonmac-SIG] FW: Python2.0 beta 2 on MacOSX/Darwin

[Jonathan Wight]

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> From: "Steven D. Majewski" <sdm7g@minsky.med.virginia.edu>
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:07:35 -0400 (EDT)
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> Subject: Python2.0 beta 2 on MacOSX/Darwin (fwd)
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> If you want to do Mac OSX development without the developers CD,
> "Darwin Tools on Mac OSX" at <http://www.darwinfo.org/>
> has a link to the article:
> <http://www.macaddict.com/content/news/2000/09/13/18709>
> containing instructions and a shell script to merege the
> Darwin development tools from the Darwin 1.0 distribution
> into MacOSX. 
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> Python 2.0 beta 2
> <http://www.beopen.com/products/python2.0/BeOpen-Python-2.0b2.tar.gz>
> builds on OSX or Darwin
> 
> configure options:
> 
> --with-dyld    # otherwise you get errors trying to include rld.h
>       # I think thats for the old style next libraries.
> 
> --with-suffix=.app  # or ".exe" or whatever
>       # this  solves the case insensitivity problem on HFS+
>       # The only clash is when make tries to move the
>       # executable in "Python/python" to the parent dir.
>       # this renames the executable with a suffix.
> 
> --host=Darwin  # Not sure about this, but it may have stopped some
>        # errors with trying to build Next platform specific code.
> 
>   ( maybe that's not doing what I thought as sys.platform still= 'next')
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> Modules:
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> bsdbm gets automagically added by configure (See notes in Modules/Setup)
> 
> threads are also automatically configured by default.
> 
> crypt can be added in Modules/Setup -- no added library switches needed.
> 
> pyexpat: expat will build, but building a library using 'ar' , as in
> the note in Modules/Setup will give link errors. -- Use libtool instead:
>  "libtool -static -o libexpat.a xmltol/*.o xmlparse/*.o"
> 
> (CoreFoundation, which is one of the OSX Frameworks also included in
> Darwin, also has functions to convert to and from XML property lists,
> but I don't believe that it exposes a full XML parser api. )
> 
> 
> 
> Limitations:
> 
> tests seem to run ok except that I get a :
> test_re
> Running tests on re.search and re.match
> Running tests on re.sub
> Running tests on symbolic references
> Running tests on re.subn
> Running tests on re.split
> Running tests on re.findall
> Running tests on re.match
> Running tests on re.escape
> Pickling a RegexObject instance
> Test engine limitations
> Segmentation fault
> 
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> using configure --with-next-framework along with --with-dyld didn't work.
> (Don't remember the error -- I'll try again)
> 
> Just uncommenting the "*shared*" in Modules/Setup gives this build error:
> 
> cc  -bundle -prebind  arraymodule.o  -o arraymodule.so
> /usr/bin/ld: warning -prebind has no effect with -bundle
> /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> _PyArg_Parse
> _PyArg_ParseTuple
> _PyDict_SetItemString
> _PyErr_BadArgument
> _PyErr_Clear
> _PyErr_Format
> _PyErr_NoMemory
> _PyErr_Occurred
> 
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> To Do:
> 
> Need to get dynamic loading of shared libraries working.
> ( dynamic loading + threading + pyexpat => Zope ought to port! )
> 
> Then need to work on Darwin|MacOSX specific libraries.
> 
> Tkinter, pyGtk and/or wxWindows under XFREE86 would be nice.
> gtk has been ported to Darwin/XFREE86
> Tcl has been ported but not, as far as I know Tk.
> Is the Mac port of Tk carbonized ? If it were, it would allow
> Tk on both Darwin under X11 and MacOSX under Carbon.
> ( We really want Quartz, but it would be nice to have something
> that runs anywhere, and TK is probably the closest thing.
> It was kind of strange to type "open PythonInterpreter" cd-ed to
> the OS9 MacPython folder and see OS9 boot up and run Python.
> I get an error message that my preferences are corrupt --
> I wonder if this is from the OSX  install on top of OS9
> moving the system folder. But otherwise, things seem to
> work -- I only tried EasyDialogs.test() and started a Tkinter
> window -- not a very complete test. )
> 
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