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Updated for the new one-slb-per-extension scheme. 

Added a few references to cvs locations for external libraries.
img now builds in its own Extensions folder.
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Jack Jansen 1999-02-10 23:08:24 +00:00
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@ -58,7 +58,14 @@ obtainable from <A
HREF="ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/software/platform/macos/src">
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/software/platform/macos/src</A>.
At the moment Python is built with a slightly modified version of GUSI,
these modifications are available in folder <code>Python:Mac:GUSI-mods</code>.
these modifications are available in folder <code>Python:Mac:GUSI-mods</code>. <br>
The modified GUSI is also in the MacPython cvs source repository, in the
directory <code>lib-src/CWGUSI</code>. However, some files contain slashes in
their names, something CVS seriously frowns upon, and each slash has been
replaced by <code>"_s_"</code>. There is a script
<code>Mac:scripts:fixgusidir.py</code> which you should run after checking CWGUSI
out
</UL>
@ -91,12 +98,14 @@ and various other places.
<LI> Gdbm library for the Mac. Available from Jack's Mac software page at
<A HREF="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macsoftware.html">
http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macsoftware.html</A> and <A HREF="ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/mac">
ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/mac</A>.
ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/mac</A>. Also in the MacPython cvs repository at
<code>lib-src/gdbm</code>.
<LI> JPEG library by the Independent JPEG Group. A version including
Mac projects can be found at Jack's page mentioned above.
The most recent JPEG library can always be obtained from <A
HREF="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/</A>.
HREF="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/</A>. Again,
also in the MacPython cvs repository at <code>lib-src/jpeg</code>.
<LI> The netpbm/pbmplus, libtiff, zlib and png libraries. The netpbm distribution
(which includes libtiff) is generally available on Internet ftp
@ -104,7 +113,9 @@ servers. For Python pbmplus, an older incarnation of netpbm, is
functionally identical to netpbm, since Python only uses the library
and not the complete applications. A distribution with correct
projects and library source only is available from, you guessed it, Jack's Mac software
page mentioned above.
page mentioned above. And, guessed it again, in the MacPython cvs repository
at <code>lib-src/netpbm</code>, etc. The only gotcha is that libtiff lives in
<code>lib-src/netpbm/libtiff</code>, for historical reasons.
</UL>
@ -199,9 +210,10 @@ work, the file <code>README-Mac</code> has some details.
<DT> Extensions
<DD> Extensions to the interpreter that are not Mac-specific. Contains
only the <code>img</code> extension in this distribution. Extensions
are not always built here, as they are on Unix, but sometimes incorporated in
the core interpreter or built as plugin modules.
the <code>img</code>, <code>Imaging</code> and <code>Numeric</code> extensions
in this distribution. Nowadays, the extensions are all built in their own
folders (unlike in older distributions, where img was incorporated in the main
build procedure).
<DT> Grammar
<DD> The Python grammar. Included for reference only, you cannot build
@ -240,7 +252,7 @@ All the mac-specific stuff lives in the <code>Mac</code> folder:
<DD> This is where the project files live and where you build the
libraries, shared libraries, executables and plugin modules. All the
resulting binaries, except for intermedeate results, are deposited in
the toplevel folder or the PlugIns folder (for plugin modules).
the toplevel folder or the Mac:PlugIns folder (for plugin modules).
<DT> Compat
<DD> Unix-compatability routines. Some of these are not used anymore,
@ -364,7 +376,8 @@ file, and add a <code>'PYC '</code> with the module to generate an
applet. <p>
<DT> Plugin projects
<DD> Usually, each plugin module has a separate project.
<DD> Each plugin module has a separate project. The <code>Plugins.prj</code>
project tries to build them all, but is known to be flakey under CW Pro 4.
</DL>
After creating the alias to <code>PythonCore</code> you remove any old
@ -374,11 +387,8 @@ to create the correct preferences file. <p>
Next, you have to build the extension modules.
The <code>PlugIns.ppc</code> project has all the
other projects as subprojects and builds everything. After all
the dynamically loaded modules are built you have to create a number
of aliases: some modules live together in a single dynamic
library. Run the <code>ConfigurePython.py</code> script from
<code>Mac:scripts</code> to create the aliases. <p>
other projects as subprojects and builds everything (but see the gotcha above).
<p>
Finally, you must build the standard applets:
<code>EditPythonPrefs</code>, <code>BuildApplet</code>, etc. This is