Hi, On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:09:26PM +0200, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
I use the distutils shipped with Python 2.4 on a i686-pc-linux-gnu system.
I am wondering how can I pass more than one external library to distutils' build_ext option (on the command line or even better via setup.cfg)?
can anyone help with this one? In case you wonder why I need to pass the library names on the command line of setup.py: My extension uses several Boost libraries. Boost uses some kind of "library name mangling" to encode the compiler, library version and build options (single vs. multi threaded, release vs. debug build) in the library names. I cannot know which build of the Boost library the user of my extension will want / need to link against. (E.g., if he user's python interpreter was built without thread support then the extension must not be linked against libboost_*mt*.) So I need to offer the users of my extension a way to override the default choice of external libraries.
In analogy to --include-dirs I'd expect
./setup.py build_ext --libraries A:B
to generate a linker call similar to:
g++ -lA -lB # ... other arguments and options
But I get:
g++ -lA:B # ...
I also tried
./setup.py build_ext --libraries 'A B' ./setup.py build_ext --libraries A B ./setup.py build_ext --libraries A,B ./setup.py build_ext --libraries A --libraries B
but to no avail. (In the last case the second --libraries option seems to overwrite the first one.)
Is this feature missing and I need to put the library list in the libraries option of the respective Extension constructor in setup.py? Or did I fail to try the correct syntax?
Regards Christoph -- http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/Mitarbeiter/cludwig.html LiDIA: http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/LiDIA/Welcome.html