Hi folks,

I'm working on a package that will contain a bunch of cython extensions, all of which need to link against a pile of C++ code. What I think I need to do is build that C++ as a dynamic library, so I can link everything against it.

It would be nice if I could leverage distutils to build that library for me. Particularly since Windows and OS-X and Linux all seem to need things a little (or q lot) different. It looks like numpy.distuitls' config.add_library might be what I need, but the docs are pretty sprarse:

This page:

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.5.x/reference/generated/numpy.distutils.mi...

confused me a bit:

""" Parameters : name : str Name of the extension. """

Is this really building an extension, or is that some docs string brought over from the distutils Extension class?

So -- is config.add_lirary() what I'm looking for?

If so are there better docs and/or examples you canpoint me to?

Thanks,

-Chris

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