[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Python bindings without autotools
- From: James Teh <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:36:55 +1000
On 13/11/2010 8:05 PM, Dr.Leo wrote:
My understanding is that one needs autotools to generate the Python
bindings from the __init__.py.in file in the svn repo. Is my
understanding correct?
Well, you need to run ./configure, yes. However, you also need this (and
other build tools) to build the liblouis dll, which is part of the
bindings in the sense that the bindings depend on it. The bindings are
dependent on a specific version of the dll. In addition, other operating
systems obviously require their own build of the library. This makes it
impossible to distribute liblouis using standard Python packaging
techniques.
To further complicate matters, there is no standard location in which to
place the liblouis tables in Windows. The dll is built with the default
location specified at compile time. You can override this, of course,
but it means you can never just write "table-filename"; you must always
provide the full path or set an environment variable. The dll must also
be placed in system32 or similar if you want Python to be able to find it.
All of this said, you can grab the Windows Python bindings as packaged
for NVDA from here:
http://www.nvda-project.org/3rdParty/liblouis-python-win_2.1.1.zip
I've avoided making these official due to the above issues and potential
confusion that might result.
Jamie
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