The purpose of this tool is to compile and package Python-RPN into self-contained wheels that can be installed on any system. These wheels could potentially be uploaded to a repository (such as pypi.org) to streamline the package installation for end-users. This tool uses the manylinux Docker image for building and bundling the required shared libraries (librmn, vgrid, libburpc, etc.). Windows wheels are cross-compiled with the mingw-w64 compiler inside an Ubuntu Docker container.
Note: This build recipe is not part of the Python-RPN package, and comes with no support. Check the Python-RPN project for official build recipes.
First, you need to install docker. On an Ubuntu system, you would run:
sudo apt-get install docker.io
Then, run make to generate the source bundle and Python wheel files for all supported platforms.
These files are saved in the wheelhouse/ directory.
If you don't have docker installed, you could run make sdist to build the source bundle or make native to build a non-portable wheel for your platform.
You can try installing the wheel files on another system (or in a virtualenv) and test it out.
The easiest way to install is through pip:
pip install <filename>.whl
This tool will automatically download a copy of Python-RPN, librmn, vgrid, libburpc, and the armnlib headers.
The build system is designed to run on an x86-64 Linux machine, building Linux and Windows wheels through appropriate Docker containers.
However, you should be able to build on other platforms provided you have the gfortran package.
On MacOSX, you can install gfortran via Homebrew, with the command brew install gcc.
On Raspbian, you can install gfortran with the command sudo apt-get install gfortran.
Once you have a working gfortran, you should be able to build a binary wheel with the command make native.