[Numpy-discussion] how to include numpy headers when building an extension?

[David M. Cooke]

David Cournapeau <david@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

> Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
>> Christopher Barker wrote:
>>   
>>> I know this has been discussed, but why doesn't numpy put its includes 
>>> somewhere that distutils would know where to find it?
>>>   
>>>     
>> I think one answer is because distutils doesn't have defaults that play 
>> well with eggs.   NumPy provides very nice extensions to distutils which 
>> will correctly add the include directories you need.
>>   
> Concerning numpy.distutils, is anyone working on improving it ? There 
> was some work started, but I have not seen any news on this front: am I 
> missing something ? I would really like to have the possibility to 
> compile custom extensions to be used through ctypes, and didn't go very 
> far just by myself, unfortunately (understanding distutils is not 
> trivial, to say the least).

I work on it off and on. As you say, it's not trivial :-) It also has
a tendency to be fragile, so large changes are harder. Something will work
for me, then I merge it into the trunk, and it breaks on half-a-dozen
platforms that I can't test on :-) So, it's slow going.

I've got a list of my current goals at
http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/DistutilsRevamp.

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