Patch by Bill Noon: added 'dylib' as a library type along with
'static' and 'shared'. This fixes extension building for dynamic
Pythons on MacOSX.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
index 4a282d4..4efd934 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py
@@ -792,8 +792,8 @@
output_dir=''):
if output_dir is None: output_dir = ''
- if lib_type not in ("static","shared"):
- raise ValueError, "'lib_type' must be \"static\" or \"shared\""
+ if lib_type not in ("static","shared","dylib"):
+ raise ValueError, "'lib_type' must be \"static\", \"shared\" or \"dylib\""
fmt = getattr (self, lib_type + "_lib_format")
ext = getattr (self, lib_type + "_lib_extension")
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
index da1f2a4..a4f0ac4 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@
obj_extension = ".o"
static_lib_extension = ".a"
shared_lib_extension = ".so"
- static_lib_format = shared_lib_format = "lib%s%s"
+ dylib_lib_extension = ".dylib"
+ static_lib_format = shared_lib_format = dylib_lib_format = "lib%s%s"
@@ -259,6 +260,8 @@
for dir in dirs:
shared = os.path.join(
dir, self.library_filename(lib, lib_type='shared'))
+ dylib = os.path.join(
+ dir, self.library_filename(lib, lib_type='dylib'))
static = os.path.join(
dir, self.library_filename(lib, lib_type='static'))
@@ -266,7 +269,9 @@
# data to go on: GCC seems to prefer the shared library, so I'm
# assuming that *all* Unix C compilers do. And of course I'm
# ignoring even GCC's "-static" option. So sue me.
- if os.path.exists(shared):
+ if os.path.exists(dylib):
+ return dylib
+ elif os.path.exists(shared):
return shared
elif os.path.exists(static):
return static