@@ -19,33 +19,87 @@ Starting with macOS 10.15 Catalina, Gatekeeper now also requires
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that installer packages are submitted to and pass Apple's automated
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notarization service using the altool command. To pass notarization,
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the binaries included in the package must be built with at least
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- the macOS 10.9 SDK, mout now be signed with the codesign utility
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+ the macOS 10.9 SDK, must now be signed with the codesign utility,
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and executables must opt in to the hardened run time option with
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any necessary entitlements. Details of these processes are
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available in the on-line Apple Developer Documentation and man pages.
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- As of 3.8.0 and 3.7.7, PSF practice is to build one installer variants
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- for each release. Note that as of this writing, no Pythons support
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- building on a newer version of macOS that will run on older versions
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+ A goal of PSF-provided (python.org) Python binaries for macOS is to
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+ support a wide-range of operating system releases with one set of
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+ binaries. Currently, the oldest release supported by python.org
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+ binaries is macOS 10.9; it is still possible to build Python and
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+ Python installers on older versions of macOS but we not regularly
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+ test on those systems nor provide binaries for them.
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+ Prior to Python 3.9.1, no Python releases supported building on a
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+ newer version of macOS that will run on older versions
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by setting MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET. This is because the various
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- Python C modules do not yet support runtime testing of macOS
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+ Python C modules did not yet support runtime testing of macOS
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feature availability (for example, by using macOS AvailabilityMacros.h
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- and weak-linking). To build a Python that is to be used on a
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- range of macOS releases, always build on the oldest release to be
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- supported; the necessary shared libraries for that release will
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- normally also be available on later systems, with the occasional
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- exception such as the removal of 32-bit libraries in macOS 10.15.
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- build-installer requires Apple Developer tools, either from the
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+ and weak-linking). To build a Python that is to be used on a
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+ range of macOS releases, it was necessary to always build on the
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+ oldest release to be supported; the necessary shared libraries for
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+ that release will normally also be available on later systems,
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+ with the occasional exception such as the removal of 32-bit
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+ libraries in macOS 10.15. For 3.9.x and recent earlier systems,
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+ PSF practice was to provide a "macOS 64-bit Intel installer" variant
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+ that was built on 10.9 that would run on macOS 10.9 and later.
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+ Starting with 3.9.1, Python fully supports macOS "weaklinking",
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+ meaning it is now possible to build a Python on a current macOS version
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+ with a deployment target of an earlier macOS system. For 3.9.1 and
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+ later systems, we provide a "macOS 64-bit universal2 installer"
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+ variant, currently build on macOS 11 Big Sur with fat binaries
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+ natively supporting both Apple Silicon (arm64) and Intel-64
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+ (x86_64) Macs running macOS 10.9 or later.
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+ The legacy "macOS 64-bit Intel installer" variant is expected to
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+ be retired prior to the end of 3.9.x support.
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+ build-installer.py requires Apple Developer tools, either from the
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Command Line Tools package or from a full Xcode installation.
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You should use the most recent version of either for the operating
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system version in use. (One notable exception: on macOS 10.6,
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Snow Leopard, use Xcode 3, not Xcode 4 which was released later
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- in the 10.6 support cycle.)
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+ in the 10.6 support cycle.) build-installer.py also must be run
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+ with recent versions of Python 3.x or 2.7. On older systems,
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+ due to changes in TLS practices, it may be easier to manually
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+ download and cache third-party source distributions used by
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+ build-installer.py rather than have it attempt to automatically
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+ download them.
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+ 1. universal2, arm64 and x86_64, for OS X 10.9 (and later)::
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+ /path/to/bootstrap/python3 build-installer.py \
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+ --universal-archs=universal2 \
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+ --dep-target=10.9
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+ - builds the following third-party libraries
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+ * OpenSSL 1.1.1
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+ * Tcl/Tk 8.6
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+ * NCurses
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+ * SQLite
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+ * XZ
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+ * libffi
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+ - uses system-supplied versions of third-party libraries
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+ * readline module links with Apple BSD editline (libedit)
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+ * zlib
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+ * bz2
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+ - recommended build environment:
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+ * Mac OS X 11 or later
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+ * Xcode Command Line Tools 12.5 or later
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+ * current default macOS SDK
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+ * ``MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9``
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+ * Apple ``clang``
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- 1. 64-bit, x86_64, for OS X 10.9 (and later)::
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+ 2. legacy Intel 64-bit, x86_64, for OS X 10.9 (and later)::
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- /path/to/bootstrap/python2.7 build-installer.py \
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+ /path/to/bootstrap/python3 build-installer.py \
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--universal-archs=intel-64 \
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--dep-target=10.9
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