I would like to modify a setup.py file such that the command "python setup.py build" compiles a C-based extension module that is statically (rather than dynamically) linked to a library.
The extension is currently dynamically linked to a number of libraries. I would like to leave everything unchanged except for statically linking to just one library. I have successfully done this by manually modifying the call to gcc that distutils runs, although it required that I explicitly listed the dependent libraries.
Perhaps this is too much information, but for clarity this is the final linking command that was executed during the "python setup.py build" script:
gcc -pthread -shared -L/system/lib64 -L/system/lib/ -I/system/include build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/*.o -L/system/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -ligraph -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/igraph/core.so
And this is my manual modification:
gcc -pthread -shared -L/system/lib64 -L/system/lib/ -I/system/include build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/*.o -L/system/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib /system/lib/libigraph.a -lxml2 -lz -lgmp -lstdc++ -lm -ldl -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/igraph/core.so
Section 2.3.4 of Distributing Python Modules discusses the specification of libraries, but only "library_dirs" is appropriate and those libraries are dynamically linked.
I'm using a Linux environment for development but the package will also be compiled and installed on Windows, so a portable solution is what I'm after.
Can someone tell me where to look for instructions, or how to modify the setup.py script? (Thanks in advance!)
I'm new to StackOverflow, so my apologies if I haven't correctly tagged this question, or if I have made some other error in this posting.
If all else fails, there's always the little-documented extra_compile_args and extra_link_args options to the Extension builder. (See also here.)
You might need to hack in some OS-dependent code to get the right argument format for a particular platform though.