April 7, 2009
1:23 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Alexander Neundorf <alex.neundorf@kitware.com> wrote:
What is involved in building python extensions ? Can you please explain ?
Not much: at the core, a python extension is nothing more than a dynamically loaded library + a couple of options. One choice is whether to take options from distutils or to set them up independently. In my own scons tool to build python extensions, both are possible. The hard (or rather time consuming) work is to do everything else that distutils does related to the packaging. That's where scons/waf are more interesting than cmake IMO, because you can "easily" give up this task back to distutils, whereas it is inherently more difficult with cmake. cheers, David