Changeset 11852 in vbox for trunk/src

Timestamp:

Aug 29, 2008 10:30:07 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Python on the mac.

Location:

trunk/src/libs/xpcom18a4/python

Files:

• sample/vboxshell.py (modified) (2 diffs)
• vboxxpcom.py (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/src/libs/xpcom18a4/python/sample/vboxshell.py

@@ -21 +21 @@
 # To allow library resolution
 #  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VBOX_PROGRAM_PATH
+#
 # Additionally, on 64-bit Solaris, you need to use 64-bit Python from 
 # /usr/bin/amd64/python and due to quirks in native modules loading of 
@@ -26 +27 @@
 #   mkdir $VBOX_PROGRAM_PATH/64
 #   ln -s $VBOX_PROGRAM_PATH/VBoxPython.so $VBOX_PROGRAM_PATH/64/VBoxPython.so 
+#
+# Mac OS X users can get away with just this:
+#   export PYTHONPATH=$VBOX_SDK/bindings/xpcom/python:$PYTHONPATH
+# , where $VBOX_SDK is is replaced with the place you unzipped the SDK
+# or <trunk>/out/darwin.x86/release/dist/sdk.
+#  
 #
 import traceback

trunk/src/libs/xpcom18a4/python/vboxxpcom.py

@@ -17 +17 @@
 import xpcom
 import sys
+import platform
 
 # this code overcomes somewhat unlucky feature of Python, where it searches
@@ -22 +23 @@
 # rest of Python bindings expect _xpcom to be inside xpcom module
 # XXX: maybe implement per Python version module search
-cglue = __import__('VBoxPython')
+#cglue = __import__('VBoxPython')
+if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
+    # TODO: This needs to be changed if it is supposed to work with OSE as well.
+    saved_sys_path = sys.path;
+    sys.path = [ '/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS', ] + saved_sys_path
+    cglue = __import__('VBoxPython')
+    sys.path = saved_sys_path    
+else:
+    cglue = __import__('VBoxPython')  
 sys.modules['xpcom._xpcom'] = cglue
 xpcom._xpcom = cglue