[Distutils] Subclassing the compiler

[Simon Wood]

Excellent!!! that did the trick.

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You need to add your compiler into the ccompiler.compiler_class dict,
> then specify the compiler type in the metadata in setup.py, with the
> compiler option.
>
> Regards
> Tarek
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Simon Wood <sgwoodjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The API reference for distutils tells how to get an instance of a new
> > compiler sub-class with the following command:
> >
> > mycompiler = distutils.ccompiler.new_compiler(plat=None, compiler=None,
> > verbose=0, dry_run=0, force=0)
> >
> > The API also specifies the commands to modify specific parameters within
> the
> > returned compiler sub-class. However the API says nothing about how to
> > actually "use" the new sub-class. In other words, how does one go about
> > getting the following to work (or something similar)?
> >
> > python setup.py build
> >
> > where the build steps now use 'mycompiler'
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Simon
> >
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