The next problem to arise was that the setup script did not recognize the version of oracle that was being used. To fix this I needed to do a slight hack on the setup script. I created the following patch that should work a treat. (Any suggestions on how to improve this would be greatly appreciated. I could add more filesToCheck for other versions of oracle, maybe adding (“11g”, “libclntsh.dylib.11.1”), to filesToCheck for Oracle 11g for example.)

--- setup.py.bak	2008-08-25 14:13:13.000000000 +0100
+++ setup.py	2008-08-25 14:16:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -153,6 +153,11 @@
                     ("9i", "oraclient9.dll"),
                     ("8i", "oraclient8.dll")
+        elif sys.platform in ("darwin"):
+            subDir = ""
+            filesToCheck = [
+                    ("10g", "libclntsh.dylib.10.1")
+            ]
         else:
             subDir = "lib"
             filesToCheck = [

To patch your version of setup.py save the above code into a file in the same directory as setup.py , with the name leopard_cx_oracle.patch . Now, execute the following to apply it:

patch < leopard_cx_oracle.patch 

This should allow the setup script recognise oracle instant client for leopard and behave correctly.

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