Re: [pygccxml-development] Splitting main

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

On 9/4/06, Allen Bierbaum <al...@vr...> wrote:
> Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> > On 9/3/06, Allen Bierbaum <al...@vr...> wrote:
> >> Is there anyway to ask pyplusplus to split the module registration code
> >> in the module.main.cpp file?
> >>
> >> I have a huge number of implicit conversions, ptr_to_python and
> >> overloaded methods that need to be registered.  (5 per class in the
> >> library)  Right now I am registering those all in the main module
> >> registration section (by adding code through the module builder).  The
> >> generated code works but it takes forever to compile this file.
> >
> > You can generate some cpp and header file and add the call to the main.
> >
> > mb.add_declaration_code( 'extern void register_my_xxx();' )
> > mb.add_registration_code( ' register_my_xxx();' )
>
> Although this would work I would rather generate all the code at the
> same time from the same generation script using py++.  As I understand
> this option I would have to generate the global scope methods separately.

No. See this document:
http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/html/python/techniques.html#python.reducing_compiling_time

> > In this way you don't have to introduce include or something else.
> >> In my specific case it would also work to register these methods inside
> >> the register_XXX_class() method that is created for each exposed class,
> >> but I would need a way to guarantee that the methods get registered
> >> against the global module scope.
> >
> > Why?
>
> So the registered methods and conversions show up in the scope of the
> main module.  Or can I register a global scope method within the class
> registration code?

Why do you care about conversions?


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