On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Torsten Mohr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > i'm not sure if this is the preferred way to get help. If it is not, can you > then please tell me how?
That's the best way :) > > I write a C++ extension module in which i need to tell if i compile on Linux > or Windows. What is the preferred way to do this? What are you doing exactly with this information ? > > Also, i use libjpeg, libtiff and libpng. Can i portably test for presence and > version of these libs on Linux, Windows and other OSes? > > The documentation on docs.python.org is quite good, but are there some > additional examples available? What's usually done is testing for the platform in setup.py to decide which extensions are going in. see http://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib/src/ and in particular "extensions.py" used in setup.py Regards Tarek > > > Thanks for any hints, > Torsten. > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
