[lxml-dev] Build problems under MacOS-X

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Jon Rosebaugh wrote:
> I'm beginning to think that it's not actually compiling statically. I
> set up a fresh install of OS X, installed Python, installed XCode,
> installed macports, libiconv, libxml2, zlib, libxslt, and tried
> building statically with the following options in the setup file and
> the following command:
> 
> STATIC_INCLUDE_DIRS = ["/opt/local/include", "/opt/local/include/libxml2"]
> STATIC_LIBRARY_DIRS = ["/opt/local/lib"]
> STATIC_CFLAGS = ["-liconv", "-lz"]
> 
> euterpe:~/lxml-2.0 jon$ export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib
> euterpe:~/lxml-2.0 jon$ python setup.py bdist_egg --static
> 
> However, I noticed (a) that the gcc line still says -dynamic and (b)
> the file size of etree.so does not differ whether or not I build with
> the --static option. And I still get the same segfaults.

Sorry for that, I just checked. "--static" will explicitly not work for other
platforms than win32 (see the file setupinfo.py). I didn't write that code, so
I wasn't aware how platform specific it is.

Is there any chance you could figure out what you need to do for a static
compile on MacOS? I.e., what binaries of the libs you need to include in the
build, etc. If we can get them into setupinfo.py, I bet you wouldn't be the
only happy Mac user.

Otherwise, you'd have to stick with the normal build - but there's not much I
can do myself to find out what's going wrong - I don't have a Mac (and when I
see how difficult it seems to be to update a system library, I guess it won't
become my favourite platform either...)

Stefan