On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 17, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > I'm not sure the best way to check for compiler presence,
I´ll not follow that path. Checking for compilers is going to be a nightmare. I´ll just try and catch errors if the C compiler fails for whatever reason in any system and emit a one line (of perhaps a three-line banner?) warning. All this by implementing in setup.py a custom build_ext command inheriting from distutils one and passing a 'cmdclass' dict argument to setup() function. > but it > seems compiling should be the default as 99% of the users who use > Cython will be using it with a compiler (otherwise, what's the point?). What about if cross-compiling for other platforms? No idea if this make sense, though ;-). >>> Unless a user actually open and take a look at setup.py, there is no >>> way to discover the '--no-cython-compile' flag. >> >> Yes, a good help message would be good. > > +1 OK, I´ll try to writhe a patch by tomorrow, and then send it for review and comments. -- Lisandro Dalcín --------------- Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
