Re: Setting upthe dev environment in Mac OS X

On Thursday, 06 April 2006, Greg Pratt is rumored to have said...
> My guess is that bp.py just doesn't know where to find wxPython's
> pieces.  I've had PYTHONPATH defined and pointing to
> /Library/Python/2.3/wx-2.6-mac-unicode/wxPython, but I don't know
> if that variable is even the one I should be concerned about in this
> case.

Re-reading my earlier message got me thinking: the docs for wxPython
state that I should "...ensure that the directory containing wxPython is
contained in the PYTHONPATH environment variable."  Hmm, one-off error?

I changed $PYTHONPATH from

    /Library/Python/2.3/wx-2.6-mac-unicode/wxPython

...to...

    /Library/Python/2.3/wx-2.6-mac-unicode

Voila!

The only other change needed is to change the invocation of bp.py from
"python" to "pythonw".  If you forget this, "python" will tell you. :)

    $ python src/bp.py
    This program needs access to the screen. Please run with 'pythonw',
    not 'python', and only when you are logged in on the main display of
    your Mac.
    canis-major:~/src/bitpim/bitpim gpratt$ pythonw src/bp.py
    not returning a bitmap for wxART_ADD_BOOKMARK
    not returning a bitmap for wxART_DEL_BOOKMARK
    You need to make helphelp.png
  [...]

I haven't tested the code yet, but at least now it will load properly.

To review, this can be used to run BitPim from the development download
under Mac OS X 10.4 where you've got the pre-built binary of wxPython
installed:

    export PYTHONPATH=/Library/Python/2.3/wx-2.6-mac-unicode
    cd /path/to/bitpim
    python packaging/buildmodules.py
    pythonw src/bp.py

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