What is the right way to use the libimobiledevice python bindings?

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I am using macOS 10.15.7.

I use pyenv to install Python 3.8.6.

I use python -m venv myenv to setup a virtual environment and activate that environment.

I clone the liblist repo from https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist. I then use ./autogen.sh --prefix=/Users/jamesh/tmp/local --enable-debug to generate the Makefile. After make'ing and installing, I get the plist.so file.

$ pwd
/Users/jamesh/tmp/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages
$ ls
plist.a   plist.la* plist.so*

I can cd into /Users/jamesh/tmp/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages, run ipython, and execute import plist. As it is importing, it crashes with 'ipython' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

I also tried a simple script with:

import sys
sys.path.append( "/Users/jamesh/tmp/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages" )
import plist

with the same result.

I figure I must be doing something wrong and cannot use the plist.so file directly.

What step am I missing?

However, I can do the basically the same on Ubuntu 18.04 and it works.

What is the right way to use the libimobiledevice python bindings?

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