[Pythonmac-SIG] Developing Python extentions on Mac X OS

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Sun Sep 5 10:07:19 CEST 2004


On 5-sep-04, at 8:30, John Dean wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am attempting to port Rekall to the Mac, only I am acomplete newbbie 
> when it comes to Mac application development; I am more at home on 
> Linux or Windows. Rekall includes a large number of Python extentions, 
> which need Sip and SlipLib. Sip, SipLib and the extentions are 
> dependent on the Mac equivalent of libpython2.3.so (possibly 
> libpython2.3.dylib) yet it doesn't seem to be available with the Apple 
> supplied dev kits. Could somebody tell where I can find the python 
> dylib or would I need to buold Python from scratch?

Link with '-framework Python'. On MacOS X 10.2 you'll have to install 
MacPython first, because the included python is 2.2 and doesn't include 
a shared library.

Ronald



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