- Have python installed on your pc
(www.python.org)
You can either have the original python or the active-state version.
The later has a good editor window to write python-scripts. (for windows,
linux users will use xemacs or...?)
- Get the boost_python-library
(www.boost.org)
Boost.python is a c++ library which enables seamless
interoperability between c++ and the python programming language.
Don't install the whole boost_library! Boost.python does the job.
install instructions are on the boost site, see install -> python.
- 'SCons' should be installed.
(www.scons.org)
Scons is a python program that acts like the classic '@code(Make)'
utility. It constructs projects.
Rodis has a Sconstruct and a SConscript
file. Sconscript holds the name of all the files which need to be compiled.
Sconscript passes the compiler variables to scons.
Those variables need to be adapted in the machine_cfg.py file.
- Have the right
util/cmatrix_inv.cxx
there is one for windows and one for unix. Because of awefull hacking.
Hope this will change once, but is not prior at the moment.
- Change the machine_cfg.py script (addapt it to your machine)
You should change the compiler commands, flags
and adapt the directories where the include files and the libraries are.
python setup.py does the building and the installation
If you type 'scons', the library will be made. e.g rodis/_rodis.so.
If this one is in the PYTHONPATH, you will be able to
import this code in python
'>>> import _rodis'
The 'scons' -command is incorporated in the setup.py script.
This script will do more than building the .so or .dll. It will install
the top-layer-scripts too (rodis_ui.py, rodis_version.py, __init__)
and set the pythonpath! That's all done by the
'python setup.py' command.
To make the windows self-installer, I used
python setup.py bdist_wininst --bitmap="rodis.1.2.bmp"
--target-version="2.2". This command will make a new directory 'dist'
and put one exe-file in it. This file includes some libraries
and documentation too. (e.g the boost library).
