On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Todd Whiteman wrote:

>  Paul Everitt wrote:
> >
> > Great!  Is the build process possible on OS X?  If so, I could try to
> > produce an XPI.
> >
> 
>  Excellent. The PyXPCOM builds should work on Mac OS X (at least they  
>  are
>  working on the Mozilla 1.8, as Komodo is using it there).
> 
>  I think the tricky parts for Mac OS X are going to be:
>  * building and including PyxpcomExt's own Python 2.5.x (likely as a
>  Framework)
>  * pyxpcom library relocation tricks, as the library references will  
>  need
>  to be tweaked (otool -L, install_name_tool)
>  * universal binaries
> 
>  The PyxpcomExt builds for Windows and Linux are using a component stub
>  (.dll, .so) to load the necessary pyxpcom and python pieces, this stub
>  should not be necessary on the Mac if the "library relocation tricks"
>  work correctly, as the stub is there to simply load the library
>  prerequisites which the Mac can already do through @executable_path  
>  and
>  @loader_path library settings.

Hmm, is there any starting point I could look at from the Komodo build  
system?  I doubt I'm the right profile to tackle the library stuff.

--Paul
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