Re: [Gtk-osx-users] Selecting Python installation for PyGtk

[John R. <jr...@ce...>]

On Nov 14, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Ian Bell wrote:

> All,
> 
> Got pygtk to build without problems on 10.6 Snow Leopard by following the instructions from https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gtk-osx/wiki/PyGtk
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> I ran the terminal commands:
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> jhbuild bootstrap --ignore-system
> jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap
> jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-core
> jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-python
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> 
> 
> and the last few lines of my .jhbuildrc-custom file looks like:
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> build_policy = "updated-deps"
> moduleset = "http://github.com/jralls/gtk-osx-build/raw/master/modulesets-stable/gtk-osx.modules"
> setup_sdk("10.6", "10.6", ["i386"])
> _gtk_osx_use_jhbuild_python=True
> append_autogenargs("python", "--with-universal-archs=32-bit --enable-universalsdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk")
> branches["python"] = "http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2"
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> 
> 
> and I went through the Python unpacking step and everything seemed to be working.  But when I run python (with all the different versions on my computer) 
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> import pygtk 
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> fails.  I can see that the PyGtk is hiding in ~/gtk . How do I get the pygtk files to be found by my Python installation so that I can sucessfully use PyGtk on OSX?
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> Thanks for any information you can provide.
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> 
> 

Just as a guess, you need to start by learning Python. Go read up on $PYTHON_PATH.

Regards,
John Ralls