[Boost-build] Building Python Modules on Mac OS X

From: Brad Howes (howes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-15 10:37:35

On a Mac OS X 10.4.8 system, I installed Boost 1.33.1 and Python  
2.4.4. I was able to generate a Python DLL, but Python could not  
import the DLL, claiming the DLL was an incorrect type. I then found  
out that Python 2.4 on the Macintosh requires its DLLs to be a bundle  
type, not a shared library type. I hacked darwin.jam and python.jam  
to utilize a new feature, <link-mode>, which then affects the  
link.dll action under darwin. Everything works just fine now.

Python 2.5 does not have this problem, but Boost.Python contained in  
the 1.33.1 release fails to compile with it.

Any interest in a patch for this? I noticed some mail questioning  
whether darwin.jam is still needed due to changes in gcc.jam, so  
perhaps all of this has already been resolved in source tree.

Brad

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