Linkin libtidy Libraries on mac os x 10.3.9 for Python 2.5

Hello,
I am trying to configure libtidy for python on my apple OS X 10.3.9, but I am not having any luck, I have tried google, but there is not a lot of results.

I already have tidy running

$ tidy --version
HTML Tidy for Mac OS X released on 1 September 2005

But am trying to install libtidy on a different version for python, not as root, here is what I have tried so far:

Install python

$tar -zxvf Python-2.5.tgz
$cd Python-2.5
$./configure --prefix /path/to/my/sandbox/directory
$make
$make install

Now install tidy:

** Here I am unsure as I already have tidy runing and working, so I installed it into a different directory:


$ tar xvfz tidy_src.tgz
$ cd tidy
$ sh build/gnuauto/setup.sh
../configure --prefix=/Users/me/Sites/itools/itools-0.15/usr

.....

How do I link the Libraries on OS X

Libraries have been installed in:
   /Users/me/Sites/itools/itools-0.15/usr/lib

$cd ~/downloads
$unzip uTidylib-0.2.zip
$cd uTidylib-0.2


I now run:

me:~/downloads/uTidylib-0.2 me$ /Users/me/Sites/itools/itools-0.15/bin/python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running install_lib
running install_egg_info
Removing /Users/me/Sites/itools/itools-0.15/lib/python2.5/site-packages/uTidylib-0.2-py2.5.egg-info
Writing /Users/me/Sites/itools/itools-0.15/lib/python2.5/site-packages/uTidylib-0.2-py2.5.egg-info
*** This library requires that you have two libraries     ***
***           installed: ctypes and libtidy.                      ***
***   Please make sure they are installed correctly     ***
***              before reporting a bug.                           ***
*** See:                                                                  ***
***  http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/      ***
***         and http://tidy.sourceforge.net                     ***
*** (or consult your vendor documentation for binary  ***
***                    packages.)                                     ***


Python 2.5 already comes with ctypes, so I am not too sure why this does not work

Running python:

$ /Users/me/Sites/itools/itools-0.15/bin/python
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Dec 17 2006, 21:50:27) 
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1640)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tidy
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/me/Sites/itools/itools-0.15/lib/python2.5/site-packages/tidy/__init__.py", line 43, in <module>
    from tidy.lib import parse, parseString
  File "/Users/me/Sites/itools/itools-0.15/lib/python2.5/site-packages/tidy/lib.py", line 33, in <module>
    raise OSError("Couldn't find libtidy, please make sure it is installed.")
OSError: Couldn't find libtidy, please make sure it is installed.
>>> 


So I guess the problem is how to link the Libraries to this python version on Mac OS X.

Any help or advice would be most welcomed.

Cheers

Norman

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