[Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg with C sources

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

> Jonathan Peirce wrote:
>> I'm wanting to make a mac installer for a python library I maintain 
>> that contains some C extensions and I'm not clear how to go about it 
>> since setup for bdist_mpkg doesn't accept ext_module.
>> Does anyone have a simple-ish example of how to do this? Or will it 
>> be that bdist_mpkg will one day just act like the regular distutils 
>> bdist? Obviously ideally I would like not to have a separate setup.py 
>> for each platform I support - would be much nicer to have a single 
>> script like the one below (which does successfully build a mac binary 
>> distribution using bdist, just not the double-clickable installer)
>
> I have built upwards of 40-ish packages with extension modules and 
> packaged them with bdist_mpkg. I have found no such problem. Can you 
> describe the actual problem that you are seeing in more detail?

bdist_mpkg *is* a regular bdist.  It invokes the "install" command, and 
then pax'es up all the junk and puts it in a package.

Try this:
package_data_path=os.path.join(sys.prefix, 
'lib','site-packages','psychopy')

bdist_mpkg doesn't currently assume that the directories you give it 
are sys.prefix relative (maybe it should).  I've never seen a package 
that makes that assumption (and apparently neither has Robert).

-bob