How to do it

This recipe builds on top of Chapter 9, Mixed-language Projects, Recipe 5, Building C++ and Python projects using pybind11. Let us see how in detail:

First, we extend account/CMakeLists.txt. The only addition is the last directive, which specifies the install target:

install(  TARGETS    account  LIBRARY    DESTINATION account  )

And that's it! With the install target and the README.rst, MANIFEST.in, setup.py, __init__.py, and version.py files in place, we are ready to test the installation of our example code which is interfaced using pybind11:

  1. For this, create a new directory somewhere on your computer and we will test the installation there.
  2. Inside the newly created directory, we run pipenv install from a local path. Adjust the local ...

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