[Pythonmac-SIG] Dev Tools needed?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 24, 2005, at 7:28 AM, William K wrote:

> I was looking at the MacPython installer (2.4.1) and it's not clear
> if Xcode is needed.  Other than not being able to build modules from
> C source, I noticed one bit that is installed in the System python
> framework, PantherPythonFix, that has some reference to GCC.  There's
> nothing in the installer to keep it from installing on a system
> without Xcode, but will it run without it, as long as one doesn't
> need to compile C modules?

Xcode is only required for developing extensions.

> I ask because I want to package some programs that include built C
> modules, and some Mac users might not want to install Xcode, just use
> prebuilt modules in their Python scripts.

With py2app, they don't even need Python.

-bob