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Building pycurl on MacOS 10.6

February 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments

If you try to build the lastest pycurl (7.19.0) on MacOS 10.6 you may get the following errors:

i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: /usr/lib/libcurl.a: No such file or directory
powerpc-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: /usr/lib/libcurl.a: No such file or directory
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: /usr/lib/libcurl.a: No such file or directory

The problem is that setup.py is calling curl-config (as it should) and requesting the static libs as well as the shared ones. MacOS X doesn’t *have* the static libs by default (and you don’t need them), so you can comment out that line from setup.py and everything should work (in add_libdirs()).

Tags: Python · Software Development

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Mac os x 10.6.2 ??? pycurl ?????? // Jun 12, 2010 at 10:22 am

    [...] ?????Building pycurl on MacOS 10.6? [...]

  • 2 nbastin // Jun 12, 2010 at 10:56 am

    The first pingback is actually a chinese translation of this post on another blog, but something in the pingback system apparently doesn’t like Unicode.

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