Re: [Visualpython-users] Help get python visual to work on OSX 10.6 with Python2.6.4!

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> As Lenore says, the easy way to get Visual 5 to work on the Mac is to 
> follow the instructions on the Mac download page at vpython.org, which 
> includes installing Mac Python 2.6.2 before installing Visual. Visual 
> will definitely not work with some other Python.
> 
> The only way I've ever been able to build Visual 5 from scratch on the 
> Mac is by checking out the source files from CVS on sourceforge.net and 
> following the instructions in MAC-OSX.txt. I built for Mac Python 2.6.2.
> 
> Recently I attempted to build for Mac Python 2.6.4 but failed with a 
> problem in the latest Boost libraries, which I reported here. Steve 
> Spicklemire said he would look into the problem.

The fink package for visualpython 5.12 (visual-py26-5.12-3) builds OK on 
Snow Leopard 64bit. It uses Fink's python-2.6.4 and boost1.35. I haven't 
tried using later versions of boost.

-- 
Martin