[C++-sig] OS X boost.python tutorial question

[Gary Robinson]

> 
> Do you have the directory
> 
/Users/garyrob/Desktop/boost_1_32_0/bin/boost/libs/python/build/libboost_python.dylib/darwin/release/shared-linkable-true
> in your $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable?

No, I didn't  -- and in fact I never heard of DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH before. 
I am truly a newbie. A complete newbie to boost, but 99.5% a newbie to 
unix development as well. Thanks for the tip!

But the thing that made it counterintuitive to me that to think that it 
might be a matter of the path is the fact that when I tried to 

    import hello

it told me it couldn't load the libboost_python.dylib file, and the 
error message named the exact location where it really was. If it knows 
exactly where it is, why does it need an environment variable with the 
path? I guess DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH must "bless" the directories it lists 
to make their contents OK for use as dynamic libraries? Dunno. I found 
some docs on it on Apple's site and will read about it.

The remaining mystery is that the tutorial docs say that 
libboost_python.so should have been produced, but in fact 
libboost_python.pylib was produced. 
(http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/html/python/hello.html). 
I'm not sure if the docs are wrong or if I'm missing something.


Gary

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