Tuesday 16 December 2008

Pitfall with distutils + OpenGL on Mac Os X

This is mainly here as a reminder to myself and anyone else who might fall into this. The scenario is as follows: I want to compile a C Python extension that uses OpenGL on Mac Os X. My setup.py file looks something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env python2.5

from distutils.core import setup, Extension

module1 = Extension('foo',
sources=['foo.c'],
extra_link_args=['-framework OpenGL'])

setup(
name='foobar',
version='0.1',
description='This is foobar!',
ext_modules=[module1]
)
However, when I build this with python setup.py build and then try to import the module with python -c 'import foo' , I get the following error:
ImportError: dlopen(./foo.so, 2): Symbol not found: _glBegin
Referenced from: .../foo.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup
How can we fix this? Take a look at the following file:
#!/usr/bin/env python2.5

from distutils.core import setup, Extension

module1 = Extension('foo',
sources=['foo.c'],
extra_link_args=['-framework', 'OpenGL']) # Note the "', '"

setup(
name='foobar',
version='0.1',
description='This is foobar!',
ext_modules=[module1]
)
So, the '-framework OpenGL' has to be given as two parameters for distutils. Nice to know.

7 comments:

SDC said...

Thank you so much! I was stuck on this business with the framework arguments!

Matthew Mitchell said...

Doesn't quite work for me. It get:

ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cscalelib.so, 2): Symbol not found: _glBindFramebufferEXT
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cscalelib.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup

:(

Richard Jones said...

Thankyou so much more posting this. I've just spent quite some time bashing my head against building OpenGL stuff in distutils on OS X :-(

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