Win32 Binaries?
Michael Ströder
michael at stroeder.com
Thu Aug 14 12:34:48 CEST 2003
Mauro,
thanks for your response. I'm very much interested in getting these issues
solved.
Mauro Cicognini wrote:
> I attach the old setup.cfg from PythonLDAP 2.0.0pre04 that used to work
> perfectly. I *had* hacked setup.py a little bit then, to make it simple
> to define symbols. BTW, the particular symbol I need is just "WIN32".
Can you please post your setup.py hack?
> 1. There's no way (AFAIK) to simply "define" a preprocessor symbol
> within setup.cfg. The distutils scripts expect to have a list of
> one- or two-element tuples, but the parser has no way to pull
> those from the .cfg. Besides, the one-element tuple means to
> "undefine" the symbol, whereas I'd like to just "define" it
> without giving it a value, which is unnecessary. I managed to
> insert it using a crude hack within setup.py (just as I had done
> with the earlier version), but I do not like this solution.
Wouldn't
extra_compile_args = -DWIN32
help?
I can also modify setup.py to properly build the two-tuple list of defines
from a line (see attached diff)
defines = WIN32
> 2. The "HAVE_XXX" symbol definition in setup.py is Linux-centric:
> since the libraries under Windows have slightly different names
> (for instance, "olber32" instead of just "lber"), those symbols
> would just not get defined. This however was simple enough to fix.
Mainly the HAVE_LIBLDAP_R is of interest. How's the libldap_r called on
Windows? Additionally you can try to manually set -DHAVE_LIBLDAP_R etc. in
setup.cfg.
> 3. It appears that any library path under "library_dirs" for some
> reason gets copied over to "runtime_library_dirs", which makes no
> sense to me.
No clue why David did it. I removed it and it stills builds under Linux. I'd
appreciate if others test it on different platforms.
> 4. The linker get called without the default libraries, and in such a
> way that a whole lot of symbols are found twice, so it just barfs
> and never links.
Any clue how to solve that?
> After these unsuccessful attempts, I had modified setup.py (which could
> be OK)
Please post your modifications to setup.py. Proposals welcome.
> but I had also started changing the default Python library
> scripts, and I'm not comfortable with this.
This is certainly no option.
> So I pulled up the old MSVC
> project I used for PythonLDAP 1.x, worked on it for a while and got the
> library to compile nicely.
My goal is to have a setup.py which is suitable to build python-ldap on any
platform with a platform-specific setup.cfg. So let's sort out the issues
together. I don't have a Win32 system to test a build therefore your input
is highly appreciated.
I've attached a unified diff for setup.py. Please test.
Ciao, Michael.
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