[PyQt] Includes in wrapper library

[Phil Thompson]

On 21 Nov 2016, at 1:41 pm, Jay L. <jlaura at asu.edu> wrote:
> 
> This question is about includes in the target C++ library.  The target library has a number of 3rd party dependencies (Boost for example) that are included in the CPP headers.  Right now, I have a Makefile that manually edit in configure.py to patch in the wrapped library's includes:
> 
>     extra_cxxflags = ["$(ALLINCDIRS)"]
>     extra_libs = ["$(ALLLIBS)", "-Wl,-rpath," + root + "/lib", "-Wl,-rpath,"+ root +"/3rdParty/lib"]
>     extra_lib_dirs = ["$(ALLLIBDIRS)"]
> 
>     makefile = ModuleMakefile(configuration=config, build_file=build_file, installs=installs)
>     makefile.extra_cxxflags = extra_cxxflags
>     makefile.extra_lflags = extra_lib_dirs
>     makefile.generate()
> 
> This is working fine via configure.py, but I would love to be able to use setuptools/distutils and have a standard, pip installable package.
> 
> 1) I want to confirm that any 3rd party libraries included in the code I am trying to wrap must be linked when building the bindings?

Only if you are explicitly calling those libraries from your code.

> 2) The ALLINCDIRS environment variable is coming from the wrapped library's build system.  Is anyone aware of a method to get this variable outside of make? (I doubt this is possible, as the variable is not even populated until make is invoked, but perhaps it is...)

Phil