Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: Changeset: r571:f081fe201bd4 Date: 2012-06-29 17:17 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/f081fe201bd4/
Log: Add MacOS 10.6 instructions. diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ * https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/downloads * ``python setup.py install`` or ``python setup_base.py install`` + (should work out of the box on Ubuntu or Windows; see below for + `MacOS 10.6`_) * or you can directly import and use ``cffi``, but if you don't compile the ``_cffi_backend`` extension module, it will fall back @@ -91,6 +93,41 @@ .. _`testing/test_verify.py`: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/src/default/testing/test_verify.py +Platform-specific instructions +------------------------------ + +``libffi`` is notoriously messy to install and use --- to the point that +CPython includes its own copy to avoid relying on external packages. +CFFI did the same for Windows, but (so far) not for other platforms. +Ubuntu Linux seems to work out of the box. Here are some +(user-supplied) instructions for other platforms. + + +MacOS 10.6 +++++++++++ + +(Thanks Juraj Sukop for this) + +For building libffi you can use the default install path, but then, in +``setup.py`` you need to change:: + + include_dirs = [] + +to:: + + include_dirs = ['/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.11/include'] + +Then running ``python setup.py build`` complains about "fatal error: error writing to -: Broken pipe", which can be fixed by running:: + + ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" python setup.py build + +as described here_. + +.. _here: http://superuser.com/questions/259278/python-2-6-1-pycrypto-2-3-pypi-package-broken-pipe-during-build + + +======================================================= + Examples ======================================================= _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
