[Pyrex] compiling more .pyx and .pxd files into one .so

[Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On 9/14/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Stefano Esposito wrote:
> > Is it possible to write several pyx and pxd files and have 'em
>  > compiled into an unique shared object?
>
> It ought to be possible, but would need a bit of hacking.
> One possibility that comes to mind is to choose one of the
> .pyx files to be the "main" one that you import from Python,
> and put explicit calls to the module initialisation functions
> of the other modules in it. Then link all the .o files together
> into a single shared object named after the main module.
>
> I'm not sure whether you could do this with distutils --
> you might need to use a makefile or some such to do the
> compiling and linking.
>
> I may add support for this kind of thing to Pyrex at some
> point.

It would be great.

Right now I do "include 'file.pyx'", but it sucks due lack of
dependency tracking and I have to "touch main.pyx" to get it rebuilt.


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