Installing ReportLab on Snow Leopard
I recently install Apple’s latest version of OS X Snow Leopard. So far I have to say I’m not terribly impressed. About the only enhancement that makes any difference to me is the Exchange support, and most people don’t need that. Anyway, I’ve had a few problems in other areas with Snow Leopard and installing ReportLab is one of them.
I did some digging around on the internet and found a lot of partial solutions, but nothing that completely worked for me. What finally did the trick was the following.
cd /Developer/SDKs sudo mv MacOSX10.4u.sdk MacOSX10.4u.sdk.bak sudo ln -s MacOSX10.5.sdk MacOSX10.4u.sdk sudo CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 ARCHFLAGS='-arch x86' python setup.py install
Not pretty, but it gets the job done.
