[Python-Dev] Building Python with CMake

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

as I wrote in my previous email, I'm currently porting Python to some more 
unusual platforms, namely to a super computer 
(http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/) and a tiny embedded operating system 
(http://ecos.sourceware.org), which have more or less surprisingly quite 
similar properties.

To do this, I added CMake files to Python, in order to use CMake to cross 
compile Python to these platforms. CMake (http://www.cmake.org) is a 
buildsystem in scope similar to autotools, but it's just one tool (instead of 
a collection of tools) and it support Windows and the MS compilers as first 
class citizens, i.e. it can not only generate Makefiles, but also project 
files for the various versions of Visual Studio, and also for XCode.

Attached you can find the files I had to add to get this working. With these 
CMake files I was able to build python for eCos, BlueGene, Linux and Windows 
(with Visual Studio 2003, but here I simply reused the existing pyconfig.h, 
because I didn't want to spend to much time with this). 
So for Linux the configure checks should be already quite good and almost 
complete, for eCos and BlueGene they also work (both are UNIX-like), for 
Windows there is probably some tweaking required.

So if anybody is interested in trying to use CMake for Python, you can find 
the files attached. Version 2.4.5 of CMake or newer is required.

I guess I should mention that I'm doing this currently with the released 
Python 2.5.1.

Bye
Alex
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