#4 Support for darwin/Mac OS X platform

[Michael Baltaks]

I have begun porting PyPerforce to Darwin/Mac OS X, and I've added a darwin section to setup.py, but I'm not sure where the third-party/p4api files come from. I'll keep looking but I thought I'd mention that I'm doing this since it will likely be easier with some help.

Thanks,
-Michael.

[Lewis Baker]

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The Perforce API can be downloaded from the Perforce website.

You should be able to find a link from this page: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadsupp.html#api.

[Lewis Baker]

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Have you made any progress on this, Michael?

Unfortunately I don't have access to a Mac to develop/test myself.

[Michael Baltaks]

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I did find the API file not long after the last post, but there was still an issue which I didn't have the time to fix. This has been pushed down in priority for me, so it might be weeks before I look at this again. I also have to determine which of the available API kits is the best, given that there are different versions for perforce versions, and a separate file for darwin vs Mac OS X, which is slightly confusing. I expect I'll have to ask on perforce lists for help on that one, but is there a specific api version that works best with PyPerforce?

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Release 0.3 works with P4API versions up to 2005.2.
The current head of the trunk works with P4API versions up to 2006.2.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

You can find the Perforce API files here:

ftp://ftp.perforce.com/perforce/r06.2/bin.macosx104x86/p4api.tar

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Here's a patch to setup.py which worked for me:

--- setup.py Mon Nov 10 23:26:44 2008 UTC
+++ setup.py Mon Nov 10 23:38:12 2008 UTC
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
('USE_CRLF', None)]
p4apiLibs = ['libclient', 'librpc', 'libsupp',
'oldnames', 'kernel32', 'wsock32', 'advapi32']
+ p4apiExtraLinkArgs = []

elif sys.platform == 'linux2':
# The Linux platform
@@ -49,6 +50,18 @@

p4apiDefines = [('OS_LINUX', None)]
p4apiLibs = ['client', 'rpc', 'supp']
+ p4apiExtraLinkArgs = []
+
+elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
+ # The Darwin platform (basis for Mac OS X)
+
+ p4apiPlatform = 'macosx104x86'
+
+ p4apiDefines = [('OS_DARWIN', None)]
+ p4apiLibs = ['client', 'rpc', 'supp']
+ p4apiExtraLinkArgs = ['-framework', 'CoreFoundation',
+ '-framework', 'CoreServices',
+ '-framework', 'Carbon']

elif sys.platform == 'cygwin':
# The cygwin platform
@@ -66,6 +79,7 @@
p4apiDefines = [('OS_CYGWIN', None),
('USE_CRLF', None)]
p4apiLibs = ['client', 'rpc', 'supp']
+ p4apiExtraLinkArgs = []

else:
print "error: platform '%s' not yet supported." % sys.platform
@@ -111,7 +125,7 @@
define_macros=p4apiDefines,
library_dirs=[p4apiPath],
libraries=p4apiLibs,
- )
+ extra_link_args=p4apiExtraLinkArgs)

setup(name='PyPerforce',
version='0.4',