Hello, I'm trying to figure out the recipe to compile Python 2.7.2 on AIX 6.1 with the ctypes module. I'm using the xlc_r compiler V9.0.
I am currently able to generate an interpreter that works, but lacks the ctypes module because of compilation errors. From looking at the newgroup posts and bugs.python.org, there seems to be an issue with Python, libffi and AIX. Is the ctypes modules simply unsupported on AIX? These are the compilation error messages I get: "/sapdepot/HP_to_IBM/t154133/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/ src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 146.25: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_LINUX_SOFT_FLOAT. "/sapdepot/HP_to_IBM/t154133/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/ src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 607.19: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_LINUX_SOFT_FLOAT. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 610.19: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_LINUX64. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 674.23: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_SYSV. "/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 908.10: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_SYSV. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 908.10: 1506-051 (S) Case expression must be a valid integral constant. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 909.10: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_GCC_SYSV. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 909.10: 1506-051 (S) Case expression must be a valid integral constant. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 910.10: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_LINUX. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 910.10: 1506-051 (S) Case expression must be a valid integral constant. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 911.10: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_LINUX_SOFT_FLOAT. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 911.10: 1506-051 (S) Case expression must be a valid integral constant. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 1033.26: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_SYSV. "/build/Python-2.7.2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi.c", line 1159.27: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier FFI_LINUX_SOFT_FLOAT. and then: Failed to build these modules: _ctypes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
