On Thu, 1 May 2003, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Jack Jansen wrote:
On donderdag, mei 1, 2003, at 15:03 Europe/Amsterdam, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
You can use the distutils.command.config command class to write configuration and test compilation methods. These have complete control over the compiler being used, so switching off optimization for the purpose of configuration should be possible.
Does this work on non-unix platforms? MacOS9 is on the way out (it definitely won't work there), but I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like this also won't work on Windows or BeOS or whatever.
If you mean the config command, yes, this also works on Windows. I use it to check for C APIs and to find locations of C libs and header files.
Hmm. Then would this also work for making a setup.py that was capable of cross-compiling to other targets? I've long been thinking the combination of Distutils, the catalog and a cross-compiler setup on the server would be able to deliver native binary packages from a source repository. Take that, CPAN! mwa -- Mark W. Alexander slash@dotnetslash.net