Re: [Visualpython-users] Release: VPython 2.9.4

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

Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
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> OSX.  3.3.x (x >= 1) should be fine.
> 
> I have attached mkdist_osx.sh, which has been slightly updated from what
> is in the .tar.bz2 file on Sourceforge.  Hopefully, that will give you a
> good starting point.  If you have any questions at all, feel free to
> ask.

I am not yet quite there. I first tried a gcc-3.5.0 snapshot whose 
sources I had lying around (it is used for the Fink gfortran package). 
This didn't work. It produced internal compiler errors. Then I tried the 
version of gcc-3.3.3 that you recommended. This almost worked. The 
remaining problem is an undefined reference error to "typeinfo for 
boost::python::instance_holder" and a second one of the same sort.

They are caused by the fact that these symbols are contained in 
libboost_python.dylib, but as non-external. Did you build Boost.Python 
only with static libraries, or do you have an idea how to upgrade these 
symbols

00091340 s typeinfo for boost::python::instance_holder
000913a8 s typeinfo for boost::python::objects::py_function_impl_base

from "non-external (was a private external)" to external? Or eliminate 
the need for them in cvisual.so?

> If you manage to get a set of working .debs, and you don't want to force
> folks to upgrade to the unstable 2.9 version yet, I would be happy to
> put them up on Sourceforge alongside the other packages.

There is a version 2.1.9 .deb in the Fink binary distribution (no boost 
needed for this, but had to be compiled with gcc-3.1, as you may 
remember). http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/visual-py23

-- 
Martin