On 03/11/2011 09:13 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 07:57 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Robert Kern<robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 19:58, Ondrej Certik<ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I spent about an hour googling and didn't figure this out. Here is my
>>>> setup.py:
>>>>
>>>> setup(
>>>> name = "libqsnake",
>>>> cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_ext},
>>>> version = "0.1",
>>>> packages = [
>>>> 'qsnake',
>>>> 'qsnake.calculators',
>>>> 'qsnake.calculators.tests',
>>>> 'qsnake.data',
>>>> 'qsnake.mesh2d',
>>>> 'qsnake.tests',
>>>> ],
>>>> package_data = {
>>>> 'qsnake.tests': ['phaml_data/domain.*'],
>>>> },
>>>> include_dirs=[numpy.get_include()],
>>>> ext_modules = [Extension("qsnake.cmesh", [
>>>> "qsnake/cmesh.pyx",
>>>> "qsnake/fmesh.f90",
>>>> ])],
>>>> description = "Qsnake standard library",
>>>> license = "BSD",
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>> The qsnake.cmesh extension needs to compile .pyx into .c and later to
>>>> .o, it needs to use gfortran to compile fmesh.f90 to fmesh.o, and then
>>>> link both things. That's it. In other words, this is what I want
>>>> distutils to do:
>>>>
>>>> $ cython cmesh.pyx
>>>> $ gcc -fPIC -o cmesh.o -c cmesh.c -I$SPKG_LOCAL/include/python2.6
>>>> -I$SPKG_LOCAL/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include
>>>> $ gfortran -fPIC -o fmesh.o -c fmesh.f90
>>>> $ gcc -shared -o cmesh.so cmesh.o fmesh.o
>>> Difficult if sticking with distutils of any flavor. You would have
>>> probably to replace the build_ext command to handle both the Fortran
>>> and the Cython. You may want to give David Cournapeau's Bento a try:
>>>
>>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bento/
>> Thanks Robert. I burned most of my today's evening on this, trying to
>> replace the command, but so far I didn't figure it out. It is indeed
>> difficult, but I wasn't sure, whether it is because I am not so
>> familiar with distutils.
> Kurt Smith spent much more than an evening on Fortran+distutils for the
> first release of Fwrap, I believe you could find something in the Fwrap
> 0.1 release...
>
> BUT, for Fwrap trunk, Kurt ditched all of that in favour of waf. And it
> works much, much better (I can simply export "FC=ifort" and it finds the
> right flags for Intel Fortran). I guess in your case, that means
> sticking with cmake.
>
>> I looked at bento, but I'll simply stick to cmake. I thought that for
>> a Python package (that uses cython + C or fortran, which I thought is
>> a pretty standard configuration for scientific computing), I would use
>> distutils, just like other Python packages.
> The point of Bento as I understand it is exactly to seperate packaging
> from building, so that it becomes possible to ditch distutils but still
> have things behave like a Python package more or less.
>
> In theory at least you should be able to plug cmake into Bento (perhaps
> by having Bento generate files included into your cmake scripts, and
> then launching a cmake process).
>
> David is currently working on using Bento and waf together for building
> NumPy.
>
>> With cmake, I have already figured out how to mix fotran, c, c++,
>> Cython and Python and everything works nicely together, very robustly.
>> So if I have to hack distutils anyway, I would write a simple
>> distutils -> cmake bridge.
> Please, write a bento+cmake bridge instead :-) Too much time that could
> have been spent better has gone into distutils already, it's time to
> just stop using it.
Also, bento comes with a distutils bridge now. So with bento->cmake, one
should be able to go distutils->bento->cmake.
DS
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