Re: [Adonthell-devel] Python tests not working anymore

[Kai Sterker]

Am Mittwoch, 04.02.04 um 13:14 Uhr schrieb Alexandre Courbot:

> Good points. On the other hand, I can hardly imagine base::init() not
> returning.

But that's the problem we're facing on OS X (and Windows too). The main 
function/method of any program using the Adonthell framework needs to 
be treated like a callback, so it will be callable from within OS X or 
Win32 initialization. And once it returns, it might be neccessary to 
terminate the program. On OS X, it would crash otherwise, for example. 
That means, most likely, init will not return.


> So the right policy would be, no source into src/, right?

Right.


> By the way. I've commited stuff a few days ago about SWIG. It removes 
> the
> libswigruntime/ directory (swig runtime library we embedded) and asks 
> SWIG to
> generate it (as of 1.3.21 SWIG is capable of doing it) along with the 
> Python
> wrappers.

That's cool. I always had problems with linking to libswigruntime 
before on OS X (somehow the path was messed up, so I had to create a 
symlink to get it working). However, linking a module against another 
module does not work well on OS X:

*** Warning: Linking the shared library _main.la against the loadable 
module
*** swigruntime.so is not portable!
** Warning, lib swigruntime.so is a module, not a shared library

Later, when doing make install I get an error. So I changed 
libswigruntime into an ordinary dynamic lib. That way, it works fine. 
Hope that's okay under Linux too; haven't tested yet.

Kai