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

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

This presumably produces a Unix-like version, right? The problem somehow 
is with creating a Carbon-based Mac-specific version. But thanks for the 
information.

Bruce Sherwood

Martin Costabel wrote:
> 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.
>