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Problem with linking embedding C application

Mads Bondo Dydensborg madsdyd at challenge.dk
Mon Oct 1 07:37:39 EDT 2001 
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Olivier Deme wrote:

> > I think that you may need to add at least
> > -lpthread -lm -lutil
> > to you ld line?
> >
> > I have a machine, where I need to do:
> >  -lnsl -ldl -lreadline -ltermcap -lpthread -lutil -lm
> > to be able to link with python.
> 
> I can't believe I would have to link my application with something like pthread
> if I don't use it! After all, Python is supposed to make an application
> portable... Our C application is portable and needs to be shipped to a
> customer. So including things like "pthread", "nsl" and the-like would break
> the main reason why I decided to extend our application with some Python code.

Well, it could still be portable, if you had a portable way of determing
this. Among different unixs and the like, you should have no troubles. I
have no idea about Windows, Macs and the like though.

> 
> As far as it seems, it looks like it is way easier to embed TCL code in C,
> rather than Python...
> Sad, since I prefer Python.

TCL or Perl, yes. I would prefer Python as well; perl gives me headaches,
and tcl is annoying with its strings-strings-strings stuff.

> 
> Maybe, we are missing some information. Is there a hello world type application
> that would demonstrate embedding Python with C or C++?
> 

The Python sources "Demo/embed" - the demo.c file - but, it uses a static
Makefile.

Mads

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