Installing JPype on Mac OS X

By default, the JPype installation on Mac OS X will fail with a GCC error.

In order to successfully install it, some changes need to be made to the setup.py file:

First, make sure you have some JDK (latest, preferred) installed
Copy the root path of the latest JDK version you want to use (for example: /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/)
Edit the setup.py file, like so:

In function setupMacOSX(), set:

self.javaHome = '/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/'

and:

self.libraryDir = [self.javaHome + "/Libraries"]

In function setupInclusion(), set:

self.javaHome + "/Headers",

and:

self.javaHome + "/Headers/" + self.jdkInclude,

Now you can run the install successfully. Enjoy.