C/C++ extensions
The previous chapter already covered this somewhat, as it's a requirement to compile the C/C++ files. But that chapter didn't explain what and how the setup.py
was doing in this case.
For convenience, we will repeat the setup.py
file:
import setuptools spam = setuptools.Extension('spam', sources=['spam.c']) setuptools.setup( name='Spam', version='1.0', ext_modules=[spam], )
Before you start with these extensions, you should learn the following commands:
build
: This is actually not a C/C++ specific build function (trybuild_clib
for that) but a combined build function to build everything withinsetup.py
.clean
: This cleans the results from thebuild
command. This is generally not needed but sometimes the detection of files that need ...
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