Hi AJ,
On 1 Jun 2015, at 7:07 am, AJ Friend <ajfriend@gmail.com> wrote: I'm trying to write a new `setup.py` file for an extension module to wrap a C library (https://github.com/cvxgrp/scs).
I have been looking for the best way to do this too and I am keen to hear from distutils-sig. I can show you my currently favourite way, although I am not sure it’s applicable to your case. class BuildExtensions(build_ext): def run(self): # At this point we can be sure pip has already installed numpy numpy_incl = pkg_resources.resource_filename('numpy', 'core/include') for ext in self.extensions: if (hasattr(ext, 'include_dirs') and numpy_incl not in ext.include_dirs): ext.include_dirs.append(numpy_incl) build_ext.run(self) and then of course pass requires=[“numpy”] to setup. This avoids running any of numpy’s code. It should work because as of version 6.1.0 pip installs project dependencies in the right (topological) order. This should be enough for your version but the original repo was importing numpy also to access other informations. from numpy.distutils.system_info import get_info, BlasNotFoundError and I am not sure how to access that without importing numpy.
Any idea why that would be happening? Could it have anything to do with the relative path I'm giving for the include directories?
This is impossible to say without a build log. Can you upload one somewhere (gist/pastebin/etc) ? Andrea -- Andrea Bedini @andreabedini, http://www.andreabedini.com use https://keybase.io/andreabedini to send me private messages