In article <CAHu5PrbHSob2r-zOTCtrYiqdudU_q+4mDXOXzp=_rejp7kh...@mail.gmail.com>, Cyd Haselton <chasel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to add a linker option to the command(s) run by setup.py when > building various objects. I'm not familiar with Python at all, so I > basically copied and modified a line from one area of the script to > another > > > ext_modules=[Extension('_struct', ['_struct.c'], extra_link_args = > ['Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined'])], > *snip* > > Unfortunately this seems to append the option to the end of the > command line. What's the best (fastest) way to add it before the > object being built (objectname.o)?
It depends on what system and build tools that you are using and that the Python you are using was built with but, in general on most POSIX-like systems, one way to do it should be to supply it via an LDFLAGS environment variable. The safest approach would be to get the default value of LDFLAGS for this Python instance, append your additional values to it, and pass it back into the setup.py build. You can do that all in one line: LDFLAGS="$(python -c 'import sysconfig;print(sysconfig.get_config_var("LDFLAGS"))') -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined" python setup.py build -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list