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diff --git a/Mac/Demo/building.html b/Mac/Demo/building.html index 716de8b..556eddd 100644 --- a/Mac/Demo/building.html +++ b/Mac/Demo/building.html @@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ <H1>Building Mac Python from source</H1> <HR> -<B>Note</B>: This document is still for Python 2.0. It is wildly incorrect. +<B>Note</B>: This document is mostly still for Python 2.0, so +it is not correct. See the <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html"> +MacPython homepage</a> for an updated version, and if none is available +complain bitterly to me and work on it should progress faster. <p> This document explains how to build MacPython from source. This is @@ -52,7 +55,7 @@ available through CVS. Check the section on <a href="#cvs">CVS repository use</a> below. <LI> You need MetroWerks CodeWarrior. The current distribution has -been built with CodeWarrior Pro 5.2. Ordering information is +been built with CodeWarrior Pro 6.1. Ordering information is available on the <A HREF="http://www.metrowerks.com/">MetroWerks homepage</A>. Building Python with MPW or Think/Symantec C is probably impossible without major surgery. @@ -67,10 +70,9 @@ HREF="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html">MacPython homepage</A> for a GUSI that is most easily used for building Python. <br> -The modified GUSI is also in the MacPython cvs source repository, in the -directory <code>lib-src/GUSI2</code>. As GUSI is moving to sourceforge -this info may be outdated by the time you read it so better check the -MacPython homepage, probably. +If nothing is listed there (yet) you will have problems building a +Carbon Python. Complaining loudly on the pythonmac-sig@python.org mailing +list will make me work faster towards distributing Carbon-GUSI:-). </UL> <A NAME="optional">The MacPython project files are configured to @@ -92,7 +94,8 @@ below. <LI> Waste, a TextEdit replacement written by Marco Piovanelli, <A HREF="mailto:piovanel@kagi.com"><piovanel@kagi.com></A>. Python -was built using version 1.3, which you can obtain from <A +was built using version 2.0, which is included in the CodeWarrior +package. You can also obtain it from <A HREF="http://www.boingo.com/waste"><http://www.boingo.com/waste></A> and various other places. @@ -129,6 +132,7 @@ access paths try to set things up as follows: <PRE> Top-level-folder: GUSI2 + GUSI2Carbon imglibs jpeg netpbm @@ -147,7 +151,6 @@ Top-level-folder: tcl8.0 tk8.0 MoreFiles 1.4.3 - Waste 1.3 distribution (if you want waste) </PRE> If your setup of the libraries is exactly the same as mine (which is @@ -157,9 +160,7 @@ repository) you can use the project <code>buildlibs.prj</code> in the fell swoop, otherwise you will have to build the libraries one by one. <p> -First build GUSI. If you didn't get the python-specific GUSI you have to -massage some of the Python code (missing routines) and you'll miss the -functionality of "delay console". +First build GUSI, both the norla one and the Carbon variant. <p> Next, in @@ -301,7 +302,7 @@ possibly changing the list of files included in the project window, of course). <DT> PlugIns -<DD> This is where the PPC and CFM68K dynamically-loaded plugin modules live. +<DD> This is where the Classic and Carbon dynamically-loaded plugin modules live. <DT> Python <DD> Mac-specific parts of the core interpreter. @@ -329,18 +330,19 @@ but for more control over the freezing process you can run the main script here. <H2>Building the 68K interpreter</H2> 68K Python is no longer supported, and the projects are not included in the -source distirbution anymore. If you really want to build Python for the 68K +source distribution anymore. If you really want to build Python for the 68K your best bet is to check the sources out of the CVS repository. The latest projects (in :Mac:build:) that support 68K development are tagged as such, and are dated around August 2000. If you plan on doing this announce it on the SIG, please. <p> <H2>Building the PPC interpreter</H2> - +<em>This is different under 2.1. You are best off using the fullbuild.py +script. </em><p> First you optionally build the external libraries with buildlibs.prj. Next, the projects for interpreter, core library and applet skeleton are all linked together, so -building the fat target in <code>PythonEngine.prj</code> +building the PythonInterpreter target in <code>PythonEngine.prj</code> will result in everything being built. The resulting applications and fat shared library are deposited in the main Python folder. Finally, you build all the plugins with the plugins.prj project. @@ -400,7 +402,7 @@ in handy if you need to debug things (which is easier in a static program). <p> You are all set now, and should read the release notes and <code>ReadMe</code> file from the <code>Mac</code> folder. -<H2>Rebuilding <code>.exp</code> files for PPC and CFM68K</H2> +<H2>Rebuilding <code>.exp</code> files</H2> Occasionally it may be necessary to rebuild your PythonCore <code>.exp</code> file, a file that controls which symbols are exported by your PythonCore @@ -422,6 +424,9 @@ those routines have to be in the same code fragment as they are used from. <H2><a name="cvs">Using the CVS source archive</a></H2> +<em>Please check the MacPython homepage to see whether this information is +still current: MacPython should move to sourceforge shortly. </em><p> + It is possible (and probably best) to access the Python sources through remote CVS. The advantage of this is that you get the very latest sources, so any bug fixed or new features will be immedeately available. This is also the @@ -462,9 +467,6 @@ homepage</a>. Finally, you check out the external libraries needed in the parent of the toplevel Python folder. The CVS path for these libraries is also mentioned at the MacPython homepage. <p> -Neither of the pages mentioned above contains the passwords for the -CVS sites, for obvious reasons, but they do contain instructions on -how to obtain the passwords. <p> You should end up with a folder structure as described at the top of this document. <p> |