[Distutils] Including DLLs in binary distributions

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:52:55 +0900, David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
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>Installing libraries which are not python extensions is indeed quite
>difficult ATM, I faced the same problem in numpy recently. Since in
>numpy, we have our own distutils extensions, I hacked something to make
>it work. A lot of code is related to our needs to be able to reuse to
>libraries (with link options and all), and otherwise:
>    - I patched the Distribution class to add one member which keeps
>track of the installed libraries (dll in your case)
>    - I added an install_clib command: this takes care of adding the
>files to the record file, etc...
>    - I added the in-place option for build_clib command: this is
>necessary to make sure develop command works
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>Feel free to reuse this if you want (and can! It is butt-ugly, but not
>worse than average distutils code :) ).
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>http://github.com/cournape/numpy/tree/install_clib
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Cool, thanks!  I'll take a look at this.

Jean-Paul