[vtkusers] Ongong woes building vtk on Mac OSX

[Sander Niemeijer]

Hi,

Some time ago I have been struggling with self-made Python builds 
myself on Mac OS X.
As far as I remember that specific error was indeed caused by using a 
static version of the library instead of a shared variant. The problem 
with the Python 2.3.3 version I use(d) is that the package does not 
support a way to create a libpython2.3.dylib, so you have to do it 
yourself. I borrowed my solution from the Python package in Fink. They 
provide a manual dynamic link line after they build the Python package. 
Something like:

cc -dynamiclib -all_load -framework System -framework CoreServices \
    -framework Foundation ...../lib/python2.3/config/libpython2.3.a \
    -o ...../lib/libpython2.3.dylib -install_name 
....../lib/libpython2.3.dylib \
    -current_version 2.3 -compatibility_version 2.3

If you have Fink installed, just look at the contents of the file:

/sw/fink/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/python23.info

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Sander

On woensdag, sep 29, 2004, at 19:20 Europe/Amsterdam, Prabhu 
Ramachandran wrote:

>>>>>> "JT" == Jens Thomas <j.m.h.thomas at dl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>     JT> I've had to build my own Python distribution as I was getting
>     JT> the "Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version
>     JT> mismatch?)" error due to tkinter not being installed with the
>     JT> default Python installation on the Mac. As I don't have root
>     JT> acces on the machine I'm working on (I'm working on it
>     JT> remotely), I've decided to build my own python distribution
>     JT> from scratch and use that instead. However, I'm now getting
>     JT> errors during the build that I've pasted in below. I've also
>     JT> included my CMakeCache.txt below that.
>
> I have no clue about the Mac and if this will help or not but you
> could try to build your Python library as a shared library
> (libpython2.3.so/dyld and not libpython2.3.a).  How you will do that,
> I have no idea.
>
> HTH,
> prabhu
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