wxPython/BUILD.osx.txt

   1 Building wxPython on Mac OS X
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   5 These are the steps I have used for building wxPython on Mac OS X 10.x
   6 with the Apple Developer Tools, a.k.a the Darwin version.  I assume
   7 that you know your way around a command line and that you know how to
   8 get things from various CVS repositories as needed.
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  11 1. "MacPython-OSX" 2.3 is required.  There is a disk image with an
  12    installer package in the wxPython Sourceforge download area, in
  13    this group:
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  15    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10718&release_id=84730
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  17    If, for some reason you need to build your own Python, get the
  18    source from www.python.org and follow the instructions in the
  19    Mac/OSX/README file to build and install the Python.framework and
  20    Python tools.
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  22    One last thing, make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH
  23    environment variable since that is where the new python and pythonw
  24    commands will be located.
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  27 2. In a wxWindows CVS tree make a build directory.  (You can also use
  28    a CVS snapshot located in http://wxwindows.org/snapshots/ or the
  29    released wxPythonSrc-*.tr.gz archive.)
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  31         cd ~/proj/wxWindows     # or wherever you put it
  32         mkdir build
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  34 3. Run configure from that build directory.
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  36         cd build
  37         ../configure --with-mac --with-opengl --enable-debug
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  39 4. Make and install wxMac.
  40
  41         make
  42         sudo make install
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  44 5. Build and install wxPython.
  45
  46         cd ../wxPython
  47         python setup.py build install
  48
  49    If you would like to install to someplace besides the Python
  50    site-packages directory (such as to your home directory) then you
  51    can add "--root=<path>" after the "install" command.  To use
  52    wxPython like this you'll need to ensure that the directory
  53    containing wxPyrthon is contained in in the PYTHONPATH environment
  54    variable.
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  56 6. Test.  Just navigate in the Finder to the demo directory and double
  57    click demo.py, or simple.py, or whatever you want to run.  Or from
  58    a command line you can run it this way:
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  60         cd demo
  61         pythonw demo.py
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  63 7. Figure out what's wrong, figure out how to fix it, and then send
  64    the patches to me.  <wink>
  65
  66 --Robin
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