Shaheed Haque wrote:
> [ resend now I am subscribed, apologies for any dupes ]
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on trying to revive PyKDE4 as PyKF5 and more [1]. The
> procedure is:
>
> 1. create SIP file from the relevant KF5 .h file(s)
> 2. run the SIP compiler to produce the actual binding C++ code
> 3. compile the binding C++ code
> 4. link the result into a .so file against the relevant KF5 library .so
>
> The whole point of what I am doing is to automate as much as possible
> of steps 1-4, and this question centres on step 4. How can I automate
> identifying the correct KF5 library .so file? For example, on my
> Ubuntu Wily system, I can start with the header files in
> "/usr/include/KF5/KItemModels/*.h" and then I need to link against
> "libKF5ItemModels.so".
The easiest way to do may be to generate the bindings when building the
library itself.
That is, we might patch kitemmodels like this:
$ git diff
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index f8d76db..3a29e8d 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,29 @@ set_target_properties(KF5ItemModels PROPERTIES VERSION
${KITEMMODELS_VERSION_S
EXPORT_NAME ItemModels
)
+# Generate a sip file for each header
+generate_sip_files(
+ RESULT generated_sip_files
+ OUTPUT_DIR sip
+ RULES KItemModelsRules.py # For libraries which need a rules file
+ HEADERS
+ kbreadcrumbselectionmodel.h
+ kcheckableproxymodel.h
+ kdescendantsproxymodel.h
+ klinkitemselectionmodel.h
+ kmodelindexproxymapper.h
+ krecursivefilterproxymodel.h
+ kselectionproxymodel.h
+)
+
+generate_sip_module(
+ # Generate a rule to link the sip result to KF5ItemModels
+ TARGET KF5ItemModels
+ OUTPUT_DIR sip
+ SIP_FILES generated_sip_files
+ NAME kitemmodelsmod.sip
+ DEPENDENCIES Qt5::Core
+ # List other dependencies and cmake can generate an import for them.
+)
+
ecm_generate_headers(KItemModels_HEADERS
HEADER_NAMES
KBreadcrumbSelectionModel
and similar for other modules.
Presumably then, the build of the libraries should install the mod.sip files
to some location in share/ so that dependencies can use them.
> So, what I need is a reliable way to map from the name of the module,
> "KItemModels" to the corresponding library in a distro (and platform?)
> independent manner. I have to do this for circa 120 different modules
> just for PyKF5. The worst case solution from my thinking would be for
> me to hard code the mapping in a way that has to be redone for each
> distro/platform.
This seem to me a good reason to modularize the bindings generation as I
described above.
Thanks,
Steve.