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diff --git a/Mac/Demo/building.html b/Mac/Demo/building.html index 03c48ce..f78b2b7 100644 --- a/Mac/Demo/building.html +++ b/Mac/Demo/building.html @@ -58,7 +58,14 @@ obtainable from <A HREF="ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/software/platform/macos/src"> ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/software/platform/macos/src</A>. At the moment Python is built with a slightly modified version of GUSI, -these modifications are available in folder <code>Python:Mac:GUSI-mods</code>. +these modifications are available in folder <code>Python:Mac:GUSI-mods</code>. <br> + +The modified GUSI is also in the MacPython cvs source repository, in the +directory <code>lib-src/CWGUSI</code>. However, some files contain slashes in +their names, something CVS seriously frowns upon, and each slash has been +replaced by <code>"_s_"</code>. There is a script +<code>Mac:scripts:fixgusidir.py</code> which you should run after checking CWGUSI +out </UL> @@ -91,12 +98,14 @@ and various other places. <LI> Gdbm library for the Mac. Available from Jack's Mac software page at <A HREF="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macsoftware.html"> http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macsoftware.html</A> and <A HREF="ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/mac"> -ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/mac</A>. +ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/mac</A>. Also in the MacPython cvs repository at +<code>lib-src/gdbm</code>. <LI> JPEG library by the Independent JPEG Group. A version including Mac projects can be found at Jack's page mentioned above. The most recent JPEG library can always be obtained from <A -HREF="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/</A>. +HREF="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/</A>. Again, +also in the MacPython cvs repository at <code>lib-src/jpeg</code>. <LI> The netpbm/pbmplus, libtiff, zlib and png libraries. The netpbm distribution (which includes libtiff) is generally available on Internet ftp @@ -104,7 +113,9 @@ servers. For Python pbmplus, an older incarnation of netpbm, is functionally identical to netpbm, since Python only uses the library and not the complete applications. A distribution with correct projects and library source only is available from, you guessed it, Jack's Mac software -page mentioned above. +page mentioned above. And, guessed it again, in the MacPython cvs repository +at <code>lib-src/netpbm</code>, etc. The only gotcha is that libtiff lives in +<code>lib-src/netpbm/libtiff</code>, for historical reasons. </UL> @@ -199,9 +210,10 @@ work, the file <code>README-Mac</code> has some details. <DT> Extensions <DD> Extensions to the interpreter that are not Mac-specific. Contains -only the <code>img</code> extension in this distribution. Extensions -are not always built here, as they are on Unix, but sometimes incorporated in -the core interpreter or built as plugin modules. +the <code>img</code>, <code>Imaging</code> and <code>Numeric</code> extensions +in this distribution. Nowadays, the extensions are all built in their own +folders (unlike in older distributions, where img was incorporated in the main +build procedure). <DT> Grammar <DD> The Python grammar. Included for reference only, you cannot build @@ -240,7 +252,7 @@ All the mac-specific stuff lives in the <code>Mac</code> folder: <DD> This is where the project files live and where you build the libraries, shared libraries, executables and plugin modules. All the resulting binaries, except for intermedeate results, are deposited in -the toplevel folder or the PlugIns folder (for plugin modules). +the toplevel folder or the Mac:PlugIns folder (for plugin modules). <DT> Compat <DD> Unix-compatability routines. Some of these are not used anymore, @@ -364,7 +376,8 @@ file, and add a <code>'PYC '</code> with the module to generate an applet. <p> <DT> Plugin projects -<DD> Usually, each plugin module has a separate project. +<DD> Each plugin module has a separate project. The <code>Plugins.prj</code> +project tries to build them all, but is known to be flakey under CW Pro 4. </DL> After creating the alias to <code>PythonCore</code> you remove any old @@ -374,11 +387,8 @@ to create the correct preferences file. <p> Next, you have to build the extension modules. The <code>PlugIns.ppc</code> project has all the -other projects as subprojects and builds everything. After all -the dynamically loaded modules are built you have to create a number -of aliases: some modules live together in a single dynamic -library. Run the <code>ConfigurePython.py</code> script from -<code>Mac:scripts</code> to create the aliases. <p> +other projects as subprojects and builds everything (but see the gotcha above). +<p> Finally, you must build the standard applets: <code>EditPythonPrefs</code>, <code>BuildApplet</code>, etc. This is |