Building wxPython on Mac OS X
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-NOTE: OS X support is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL at this time. Most things
- are working now, but a few still don't. I know about most of
- them and am addressing them as I have time. If you have any
- ideas about a fix for the stuff that's still broken then
- please persue them and send the fixes to me.
-
-These are the steps I have used for building wxPython on Mac OS X 10.1
+These are the steps I have used for building wxPython on Mac OS X 10.x
with the Apple Developer Tools, a.k.a the Darwin version. I assume
that you know your way around a command line and that you know how to
get things from various CVS repositories as needed.
-1. Python 2.2 is required. There is a disk image with an installer
- package in the wxPython Sourceforge download area, in this group:
+1. "MacPython-OSX" 2.3 is required. If you don't have it already there is a disk image with an
+ installer package at
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10718&release_id=84730
+ http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/download.html
If, for some reason you need to build your own Python, get the
- source from www.python.org and follow theinstructions in the
- Mac/OSX/README file to build and install Python.app and the
- Python.framework.
-
- If you build your own Python then you may want to make a symlink or
- two in /usr/local/bin so that this version of Python can be found
- from the command line. For example:
-
- cd /usr/local/bin
- sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.2/bin/python2.2 python2.2
- sudo ln -s python2.2 python
-
- Also, if you create a /usr/local/bin/pythonw script like the
- following then you can run Python GUI apps (like wxPython) directly
- from the command line:
-
- #!/bin/sh
- exec /Applications/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/python $@
-
- Be sure to give this script execute permissions:
-
- sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pythonw
-
- If you would like to make a MachoPython installer from what you
- built then you may want to look at the scripts I use to do it
- located in wxPython/distrib/mac/buildPython.
+ source from www.python.org and follow the instructions in the
+ Mac/OSX/README file to build and install the Python.framework and
+ Python tools.
One last thing, make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH
- environment variable.
+ environment variable since that is where the new python and pythonw
+ commands will be located.
-2. In a wxWindows CVS tree make a build directory.
+2. In a wxWindows CVS tree make a build directory. (You can also use
+ a CVS snapshot located in http://wxwindows.org/snapshots/ or the
+ released wxPythonSrc-*.tr.gz archive.)
cd ~/proj/wxWindows # or wherever you put it
mkdir build
3. Run configure from that build directory.
cd build
- ../configure --with-mac --with-opengl --enable-debug
+ ../configure --with-mac \
+ --with-opengl \
+ --enable-geometry \
+ --enable-optimise \
+ --with-libjpeg=builtin \
+ --with-libpng=builtin \
+ --with-libtiff=builtin \
+
+ If you want to add code that activates various runtime checks and
+ assertion exceptions then add --enable-debug_flag.
4. Make and install wxMac.
5. Build and install wxPython.
cd ../wxPython
- python setup.py IN_CVS_TREE=1 build install
+ python setup.py build install
+
+ If you would like to install to someplace besides the Python
+ site-packages directory (such as to your home directory) then you
+ can add "--root=<path>" after the "install" command. To use
+ wxPython like this you'll need to ensure that the directory
+ containing wxPyrthon is contained in in the PYTHONPATH environment
+ variable.
6. Test. Just navigate in the Finder to the demo directory and double
click demo.py, or simple.py, or whatever you want to run. Or from
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