[Pyenchant-users] Mac OSX

[stephan n. <nie...@go...>]

Hello Ryan,
according to your roadmap you want to build a pkg for OSX.

I recently tried your pyenchant with Abiwords
binary enchant on OSX 10.4. Although i could
not get through the python setup.py install,
i might have some remarks that could help:

if you already know your way in OSX just skip the
rest of the mail.

but recently I did some porting to OSX and had to learn
the hard way about shared libraries in OSX

so what is called libfoo.so on UNIX
comes on OSX in 3 flavours:
either as libfoo.dylib  (compiled -dynamic or i think -dynamic_lib )
a bundle called foo    (compiled -bundle )
or a framework.foo    (compiled -framework)

for exampe the enchant in
Abiwords OSX package comes
as a framework.enchant thus
can't be found by -lenchant
as in your setup.py.

depending on the nature of the "library"
you have to link in differnet ways
for example you would import
--L/pathtofoo -lfoo  for a libfoo.dylib

but for a framework it'll be:
-framework foo

for some reason some stuff has to be
a "framework build" on OSX. even python
itself is found on OSX as an "framework"-
executeable pythonw. so try this if invoking
just python doesn't do the trick.

and AFAIK module import in python:
>>> import foo
will search for a bundle named foo.so
by default (compiled using the -bundle flag
and named foo.so)


oh and what is called ldd on UNIX
is libtool -L on OSX

hope this'll save you some headaches


Stephan