Re: [Biosig-general] Question: compiling BioSig for Python

[Alois S. <alo...@bi...>]

On 09/13/2010 02:41 AM, Owen Kelly wrote:
> I have some interest there Aaron.  I am using Python + biosig4c++ on Linux.
> I made an attempt to compile for windows a while back and it will be useful
> to me in the future.
>
> I will try to dig up the recipe, as far as I got, and send out something.
> What I remember was that there was a change at a Python version that
> required a specific new DLL initialization function that is not in
> Biosig4c++ yet (or it wasn't there 8 months ago).
>
> As for documentation, I think it will be helpful to come up with an example
> Python file that shows how to make use of the lib/dll.  I was particularly
> challenged to understand how SWIG had represented data in GDF Header3.  But
> my understanding of both swig and Python is slightly better now, so maybe
> we'll be able to converge on a solution.
>
> Alois, when I have a solution, is it best to represent it as an SVN patch
> with respect to a  release, or with respect to the  development branch?

Hi Owen,

I prefer a patch against the SVN repository.


> To whom should I send a patch?


You can send it to me, or to this mailinglist.

Best,
   Alois

>
> Regards,
>
> Owen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alois Schloegl [mailto:alo...@bi...]
> Sent: September-12-10 4:05 PM
> To: Aaron Coone; Bio...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Biosig-general] Question: compiling BioSig for Python
>
> Dear Aaron,
>
>
> thanks for your interest. Unfortunately, so far nobody has been working on
> biosig for python on windows.
>
> The starting steps would be reading the documentation of swig for windows
> [1]. Note, that you will need gcc (cygwin or mingw) for compiling the
> libbiosig sources.
>
> "make" on linux performs the following steps:
>
> swig -c++ -python -I/usr/include
> -I/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/core/include -o swig_wrap.cxx
> swig.i
>
> g++ -c -pipe -fPIC -Wall -O2 -Wextra \
>    swig_wrap.cxx -o swig_wrap.o \
> -I/usr/include/python2.6 \
> -I/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/core/include&&  \
> g++ -shared swig_wrap.o ../libbiosig.a -o _biosig.so
>
> swig -c++ -python -I/usr/include
> -I/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/core/include -o swig_wrap.cxx
> swig.i
>
>
> These steps need to be translated into the windows environment.
> When you were successful, please let us know the detailed steps.
>
>
> Best regards and good luck,
>
>      Alois
>
>
> [1] http://www.swig.org/compat.html
>
>
>
>
>
> On 09/09/2010 11:10 AM, Aaron Coone wrote:
>> Dear Sir
>>
>> For my master thesis on brain-computer interfaces I am planning to use
>> the BioSig toolbox. However my experience with C and C++ is fairly
>> limited and from the documentation it isn't clear how I can compile
>> the biosig4python with swig on Windows. According to this
>> documentation only save2gdf can be built from source. Could you please
>> provide a short step-by-step explanation on how to compile
>> biosig4python? I'm certain many non-programmers will benefit from this
> information.
>>
>> Sincerely yours
>>
>> Aäron Coone
>>
>
>
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