Python package + shared object (.so library) test

This repo is a testing ground for building a shared object library, and then including this in a python package that can be uploaded to PyPI.

Basic idea/steps:

1. Declare a Fortran subroutine with "bind c" in libdave.f90
2. Compile this into a shared object library (.so) using -shared and -fPIC flags
3. Copy the library into a python package
4. Load the library using CDLL from ctypes, and create a python binding for the subroutine
5. Upload the python package to TestPyPI

Fortran to shared object library

The Fortran library is in src/libdave.f90. It contains a subroutine declared with bind(c).

To compile this into a shared object library, type make or make lib.

Tests

To test that the function is callable from the library in Fortran type

make ftest
./build/ftest

Similarly to test that it's callable in C/C++

make ctest
./build/ctest

Or make tests to compile both.

Building PyPI wheels

Manual build

To manually build a PyPI wheel of the python package:

cd pydave
python setup.py bdist_wheel

Note that this will automatically build the fortran library and copy the .so file into the correct location, however it will not "audit" or "delocate" the wheel (i.e. copy in and relink any non-standard external libraries that are dependencies).

Manual build + audit/delocate

The script pydave/build-wheels.sh will build and audit the wheel for you. However you must run this within the pydave directory.

cd pydave
./build-wheels.sh

This will create the audited/delocated wheel inside wheelhouse/

wheelhouse:
pydave-0.0.7-py3-none-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl

Manylinux

To build "manylinux" wheels, we use Docker. Just run this script

./docker-build-manylinux-wheels.sh

which will run pydave/build-wheels.sh inside a docker container for each manylinux image/platform.

Manual install

If you wish, you can just install the python package into your environment without building a wheel

cd pydave
python setup.py install

To uninstall pip uninstall <package-name>.

TestPyPI

1. To upload to TestPyPI twine upload --repository testpypi wheelhouse/*
2. To install somewhere pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --no-deps <package-name>