ANN: Python for Kylix -beta- available
Uwe Fechner
Applications now, too:
From the pythonfordelphi mailing-list:
> I'm happy to announce the Kylix compatibility of Python for Delphi!
> As I thought, it was both simple and complex to do the port! Simple
to > get the code compile under Linux, but quite difficult to have it
> running with Python, as Python is not deployed as a shared library
> under Linux!!! So, I had to figure out how to recompile the whole
> stuff and get it working!!! I'm not 100% sure of what I did, so if
> there's a Linux guru that could revise the procedure, let him talk!!!
> So, there are good things and issues:
> 1) the good first:
> The components seem to work fine, and if you're using the new VarPyth
> that makes use of the custom variants, it works absolutely fine under
> Kylix, and it will let you have portable code between Linux and
> Windows! Cool!
> 2) the issues:
> * PyArg_ParseTuple doesn't work, because it uses a trick in the
> windows stack that seems to fail with Linux!!!
> So, please help! If someone is an assembler guru, let him talk and
fix > it, as without this API there's a bunch of code that won't work
until > it is fixed!!!
> * you can build modules as shared libraries, and import them into your
> application that hosts the Python engine (see Demo09), but it won't
> load if it is imported from the Python command line tool. I don't
know > why, so if someone has a clue...
> ...
You can download it at:
http://www.multimania.com/marat
The mailinglist is hosted at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pythonfordelphi
Best regards:
Uwe Fechner