Re: [C++-sig] Advice sought on making a large C++ application a Python extension

2010-09-06 Thread Benoit Leveau
David Aldrich wrote: Hi Ravi Thanks for your reply. Yes. PyOGRE or cctbx are excellent exmples of larger projects which use boost.python. You may want to use py++ to automate binding generation to save yourself quite some time. Ok, I will look at py++. py++ is very good for the goal you hav

Re: [C++-sig] Advice sought on making a large C++ application a Python extension

2010-09-06 Thread David Aldrich
Hi Ravi Thanks for your reply. > Yes. PyOGRE or cctbx are excellent exmples of larger projects which use > boost.python. You may want to use py++ to automate binding generation to > save yourself quite some time. Ok, I will look at py++. > No. The python modules can be compiled using regular ma

Re: [C++-sig] Advice sought on making a large C++ application a Python extension

2010-09-06 Thread Ravi
On Monday 06 September 2010 08:15:39 David Aldrich wrote: > I have only looked at the boost.python tutorial that demonstrates a 'Hello > world' Python extension. For our project we would be dealing with > something very much bigger, with many classes, singleton classes and > (possibly) global data

[C++-sig] Advice sought on making a large C++ application a Python extension

2010-09-06 Thread David Aldrich
Hi We have a large C++ application that we develop in-house. It consists of a large number of source files, some of which are linked directly and some of which are first built as static libraries. It has been suggested that we make the application's functionality available as a Python extensio