[Pythonmac-SIG] PyObjC Article at O'Reilly

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Friday, Feb 7, 2003, at 20:05 Europe/Amsterdam, Pascal Oberndoerfer 
wrote:

> Bill Bumgarner at bbum@codefab.com:
>
>>> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/31/pyobjc_one.html
>
>
> I tried to install PyObjC from the sources for MacOS X 10.1.5 via the 
> usual
> "python setup.py install". Unfortunately this failed with the following
> error message:
>
>> Modules/objc/register.m:12: warning: function declaration isn't a 
>> prototype
>> Modules/objc/register.m: In function `meth_imp_679':
>> Modules/objc/register.m:55957: parse error before `const'
>> Modules/objc/register.m:55959: `errstr' undeclared (first use in this
>> function)
>> Modules/objc/register.m:55959: (Each undeclared identifier is 
>> reported only
>> once
>> Modules/objc/register.m:55959: for each function it appears in.)
>> Modules/objc/register.m: In function `ObjC_RegisterStdStubs':
>> Modules/objc/register.m:56720: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to 
>> function
>> from incompatible pointer type
>> error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1

That's not the way it's supposed to fail on 10.1.5... We don't really 
support 10.1.x at the moment. I didn't know about the problem your 
seeing, but later on in the build it will fail again when trying to 
compile the wrappers for global functions, 10.2 contains a number of 
functions that are not present on 10.1.5.

I'm afraid that support for 10.1.x will stay absent until someone 
volunteers to do the port. Luckily that shouldn't be too hard.

You also try to use the latest version from CVS, this uses libffi 
(downloadable from our files section of SF) instead of the contents of 
file that's failing for you.

Ronald