Andrew Straw wrote: > Back to your email: I don't understand why you're trying to build a > shared library with distutils. What's wrong with a plain old c-compiler > and linker (and mt.exe if you're using MS VC 8)? You can build shared > libraries this way with Makefiles, scons, Visual Studio, and about a > billion other solutions that have evolved since early C days. I can > understand the desire of getting "python setup.py install" to work, but > I suspect spawning an appropriate subprocess to do the compilation would > be easier and more robust than attempting to get distutils to do > something it's not designed for. (Then again, to see what numpy > distutils can do, well, let's just say I'm amazed.) Along these lines, I > noticed that ctypes-itself seems to have put some hooks into setup.py to > perform at least part of the configure/make dance on linux, although I > haven't investigated any further yet. Perhaps that's a better way to go > than bending distutils to your will?
Well, wrapper he's writing destined for scipy, so "python setup.py build" must work. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
