[lxml-dev] lxml Mac installation idea

[Guntsche Michael]

On Nov 11, 2008, at 18:52, Mark Bestley wrote:

>
> I made an attempt to do a Mac OSX build and I think I can answer  
> some of
> the questions raised in the various threads. I can't come up with a  
> good
> general soultion.
> The easiest seems to me to use macports for all the C dependencies and
> things seem to just work as they do for Michael Guntsche.

I had tossed around several E-Mails with Paul Everitt today to take a  
closer look at the iconv issue but you beat me to it, thanks. :)
As for the static build, my feeling is that the majority of the issues  
here steam from the fact that while the python app is universal the  
self-compiled libraries are often i386 only. I had my shares of  
problems with this before so I compiled every related library as  
universal and now I no longer have problems.

Some possible solutions I can add:

  * use macports to compile everything as Universal Binary
  * Explain in the README how to do this yourself, or provide a script  
etc.

I do not really like the idea of static builds, since the static  
library has to be universal as well which means bigger files.

Kind regards,
Michael