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

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