Re: [ggt-devel] Building the Python bindings

[John H. <jo...@co...>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Patrick Hartling wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:34 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Patrick Hartling wrote:
>>
>>> John Hodrien wrote:
>>>> How do you build the python bindings?  I'm currently running:
>>>>
>>>> scons EnablePython=True BoostPythonDir=/blah/
>>>>
>>>> But I'm not getting anything sensible built.  What should I be running to
>>>> get
>>>> the python bindings out?
>>>
>>> That is the correct way to build the bindings.  What results are you
>>> getting?
>>
>> Right, I'm clearly not understanding what I'm doing enough, so I'll be more
>> verbose.  I'm not a python coder, that's something I'm needing to learn, so
>> bear with any idiocy I put across.  Sadly things are being done a little
>> backwards.
>>
>> I've downloaded gmtl, untarred, and run
>> scons EnablePython=True BoostPythonDir=/blah/
>>
>> What should I expect to be created?  I get a gmtl.so which is mammoth (161Mb)
>> and nothing else I can see of merit.
>
> That's exactly what you should expect.  That .so file can be loaded by
> Python as an extension.  You just need to put it somewhere (/usr/lib/
> pythonX.Y/site-packages is a likely place) that Python can find it at
> run time.  You can also set the $PYTHONPATH environment variable to
> extend Python's module search path.

Hmm, it was failing to pick it up, and was complaining about no module name
gmtl.  I'll have another attack at it.

Cheers,

jh

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