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Perl Quiz of the Week

Today I wrote the summary for the current quiz, which was about writing a Tk roller coaster simulator. Four solutions were submitted, one of them uses POV-Ray instead of Tk, and another one is written in Python. There were several custom extensions: trains, parameterized gravities and time scales, data display, etc. It was fun. I sent the draft to Mark.

Tkinter under Mac OS X

When I tried to run the Python solution I saw neither the Python that comes with Panther, nor my compiled Python could run Tk.

After searching a bit I saw that the python from Fink supports it, good, at least I could play with it a bit launching the X server. Nevertheless, I wanted Python to use Tcl/Tk Aqua, and so I tried to compile the sources again with --enable-framework. Unfortunately, though, make frameworkinstall gave an error:

    ./python.exe ./Mac/scripts/cachersrc.py -v /Library/Frameworks/
    Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/plat-mac /Library/
    Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Mac/Tools
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "./Mac/scripts/cachersrc.py", line 7, in ?
        import macresource
      File "/Users/fxn/src/Python-2.3.4/Lib/plat-mac/macresource.py", line 3, in ?
        from Carbon import Res
      File "/Users/fxn/src/Python-2.3.4/Lib/plat-mac/Carbon/Res.py", line 4, in ?
        from _Res import *
    ImportError: Failure linking new module: : dyld: ./python.exe Undefined symbols:
    /Users/fxn/src/Python-2.3.4/build/lib.darwin-7.5.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/
    _Res.so undefined reference to _CtlObj_New expected to be defined in the 
    executable
    /Users/fxn/src/Python-2.3.4/build/lib.darwin-7.5.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/
    _Res.so undefined reference to _MenuObj_New expected to be defined in the 
    executable
    /Users/fxn/src/Python-2.3.4/build/lib.darwin-7.5.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/
    _Res.so undefined reference to _PyArg_ParseTuple expected to
    make[1]: *** [installmacsubtree] Error 1
    make: *** [frameworkinstallmaclib] Error 2

Google didn't help there. Is that build broken?

1 Nov 2004 fxn » (Master)