[Bf-committers] Mac OS X status

Maarten Gribnau bf-committers@blender.org
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:11:02 +0100


Kent,

Does this mean that you have VRML2 import working?

Maarten
PS Yes I am shutting down and calling it a night.

On Thursday, Dec 19, 2002, at 23:06 Europe/Amsterdam, Kent Mein wrote:

> In reply to Hans Lambermont (hans@lambermont.dyndns.org):
>
>> Maarten Gribnau wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>> * I had to uncomment the line defining NAN_PYTHON_BINARY in
>>>> nan_definitions.mk
>>>> (what is it used for?)
>>> In the repository it is uncommented. According to CVS it was entered 
>>> by
>>> Kent "Committing LarstiQ's patch for NAN_PYTHON_BINARY and
>>> NAN_MXTEXTTOOLS". I don't know what it is for either.
>>
>> This does not work on FreeBSD either. I don't see why it would be
>> needed. Kent: can you explain ?
>
> Sure,
> For everyone else on the list were talking about these two lines:
>     export NAN_PYTHON_BINARY ?= 
> $(NAN_PYTHON)/bin/python$(NAN_PYTHON_VERSION)
>     export NAN_MXTEXTTOOLS ?= $(shell $(NAN_PYTHON_BINARY) -c 'import 
> mx; print mx.__path__[0]')/TextTools/mxTextTools/mxTextTools.so
>
> If you don't have it installed it wont work :)
> You can get it here... 
> http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxTextTools.html
>
> (Note: If your saking what mxTextTools is used for I'd have to
> look it up I believe it had something to do with vrml import? and some 
> other
> stuff)
>
> If you take a look at blender/source/Makefile
> It appends NAN_MXTEXTTOOLS to the list of python libraries.
> mxTextTools was previously a static lib and it just worked but
> the only way it builds now is as a shared lib.  So we made it work with
> the new system.  We should probably add in some error checking
>
> Try both $(NAN_PYTHON)/bin/python$(NAN_PYTHON_VERSION)
> and $(NAN_PYTHON)/bin/python
>
> Also if whatever is put into NAN_MXTEXTTOOLS is not a file unset it or
> something.
>
> Kent
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