On Feb 2, 2012, at 15:22, Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> wrote: > Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> I see that distutils2 has functions like "link_shared_lib", and >>> "link_shared_object", which is a good sign. Whether they work or not is >>> another matter. >> >> As far as I know, distutils and setuptools also had the capability to >> link with a vanilla shared library. Here, I'm talking about these >> systems helping us with building a vanilla shared library that uses >> Python but that is not a Python extension. > > Ah, but in distutils2, "link_share_lib" means, link, producing a shared > library. Tell you what, I'll download it play around with it a bit, and > see if it knows what we need to know (at least, on OS X).
Ooooh, that would very welcome news indeed. Thank you for looking into it. Andi.. > > Bill
