distutils.ccompiler Contains CCompiler, an abstract base class that defines the interface for the Distutils compiler abstraction model.
| Class | |
Abstract base class to define the interface that must be implemented by real compiler classes. Also has some utility methods used by several compiler classes. |
| Function | gen |
Generate linker options for searching library directories and linking with specific libraries. 'libraries' and 'library_dirs' are, respectively, lists of library names (not filenames!) and search directories... |
| Function | gen |
Generate C pre-processor options (-D, -U, -I) as used by at least two types of compilers: the typical Unix compiler and Visual C++. 'macros' is the usual thing, a list of 1- or 2-tuples, where (name,) means undefine (-U) macro 'name', and (name,value) means define (-D) macro 'name' to 'value'... |
| Function | get |
Determine the default compiler to use for the given platform. |
| Function | new |
Generate an instance of some CCompiler subclass for the supplied platform/compiler combination. 'plat' defaults to 'os.name' (eg. 'posix', 'nt'), and 'compiler' defaults to the default compiler for that platform... |
| Function | show |
Print list of available compilers (used by the "--help-compiler" options to "build", "build_ext", "build_clib"). |
| Variable | compiler |
Undocumented |
| Variable | _default |
Undocumented |
Generate linker options for searching library directories and linking with specific libraries. 'libraries' and 'library_dirs' are, respectively, lists of library names (not filenames!) and search directories. Returns a list of command-line options suitable for use with some compiler (depending on the two format strings passed in).
Generate C pre-processor options (-D, -U, -I) as used by at least two types of compilers: the typical Unix compiler and Visual C++. 'macros' is the usual thing, a list of 1- or 2-tuples, where (name,) means undefine (-U) macro 'name', and (name,value) means define (-D) macro 'name' to 'value'. 'include_dirs' is just a list of directory names to be added to the header file search path (-I). Returns a list of command-line options suitable for either Unix compilers or Visual C++.
Determine the default compiler to use for the given platform. osname should be one of the standard Python OS names (i.e. the ones returned by os.name) and platform the common value returned by sys.platform for the platform in question. The default values are os.name and sys.platform in case the parameters are not given.
Generate an instance of some CCompiler subclass for the supplied platform/compiler combination. 'plat' defaults to 'os.name' (eg. 'posix', 'nt'), and 'compiler' defaults to the default compiler for that platform. Currently only 'posix' and 'nt' are supported, and the default compilers are "traditional Unix interface" (UnixCCompiler class) and Visual C++ (MSVCCompiler class). Note that it's perfectly possible to ask for a Unix compiler object under Windows, and a Microsoft compiler object under Unix -- if you supply a value for 'compiler', 'plat' is ignored.