Re: boost+python

[Fedja Beader]

Hmm,

Have you considered using Pypy instead of CPython (or whatever the python.org 
implementation is)? Perhaps that would be easier to compile?

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Friday, May 29, 2020 4:38 PM, Alois Schlögl <alois.schloegl@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Fedja,
>
> the support for python is not in a usable state. It is a collection of
> patches I found some time ago, but never got it working. Currently, this
> python support in my repo is unmaintained. Sorry for the news. Feel free
> to work on these, as I'd like to see python support on mxe as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Alois
>
> Am 5/27/20 um 11:33 PM schrieb Fedja Beader:
>
> > Hello,
> > Has anyone succeeded in building Boost with Python support? I have tried 
> > using Alois Schloegl's repo at https://github.com/schloegl/mxe.git as it 
> > seems to be the only one with Python support.
> > Upon adding python to boost.mk's DEPS and removing the --without-python 
> > line, the build fails with:
> > ./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:50:23: fatal error: pyconfig.h: No 
> > such file or directory
> > Adding --includedir='$(PREFIX)/$(TARGET)/Python-3.3.0' to boost.mk has no 
> > effect.
> > Ideas?
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/Python-3.3.0/PC/os2emx/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/Python-3.3.0/PC/os2vacpp/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/Python-3.3.0/PC/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/Python-3.3.0/pyconfig.h.in
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/Python-3.3.0/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/share/Python-3.3.0/pyconfig.h.in
> > ./usr/share/Python-3.3.0/PC/os2emx/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/share/Python-3.3.0/PC/os2vacpp/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/share/Python-3.3.0/PC/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/share/Python-3.3.0/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/pyconfig.h.in
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/PC/os2emx/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/PC/os2vacpp/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/PC/pyconfig.h
> > ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/pyconfig.h
> > Upon further investigation, it seems that the installation of Python does 
> > not exactly follow convention. It seems as if the whole build directory is 
> > copied there:
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Grammar
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Tools
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/config.guess
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Python
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/configure
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/README
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Include
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/config.sub
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/LICENSE
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Parser
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Objects
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/setup_info.in
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/configure.ac
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/pyconfig.h.in
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Makefile.pre.in
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/setup.py
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/config.log
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Lib
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/PCbuild
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Mac
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Doc
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Misc
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Modules
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/install-sh
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/PC
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/config.site
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/autom4te.cache
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/config.status
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/setup_info
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Makefile.pre
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/Makefile
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/pyconfig.h
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/_freeze_importlib.exe
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/libpython3.3.a
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/python.exe
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/libpython3.3.dll
> > usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/Python-3.3.0/libpython3.3.dll.a
> > However, ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/include/Python-3.3.0/
> > does exist and has a lot of header files inside. But there is no pyconfig.h.
> > Strange.
> >
> > -   Fedja