[GRASSGUI] trying to compile wxPython digitizer display_driver

[Martin Landa]

Hi William,

thanks for notes and scripts!! I will take a look at these files.
Anyway I need to update the python code to enable this driver. I hope
very soon available for testing.

Martin

2007/8/20, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>:
> Hey guys,
>
> I worked out a setup.py script to build the display driver.  This
> makes it easier to configure the installation of python and
> wxpython.  I pulled bits from the MapServer and GDAL Python setup.py
> scripts.
>
> - no python version needed from configure for the makefile
>
> - doesn't hardwire the compile/link flags or grass libs
>
> - source compilation and linking is handled externally by python,
> only the swig step must be handled by the GRASS makefile
>
> A couple things to work out:
>
> - the OSX wx-config script is buried in a non-standard location (lib/
> wxPython-unicode-[version]/bin).  For now, add that to your path
> before building the driver.  Eventually, it needs to be configured
> with something like a --with-wxpython= option.
>
> - installation - distutils builds in a subfolder, "build", with
> platform subfolders from that.  The distutils install option knows
> where to find this, but that installs in the python site-packages
> folder.  If we want to keep the driver within the GRASS installation,
> the makefile needs to figure out the platform folder to find it.  Or
> there may be an option to setup.py to do this - I've only fiddled
> with distutils and don't know all its capabilities.
>
> - it's currently setup for grass_src/somefolder/gui/display_driver -
> that is, 3 levels deep.  (this is for the MODULE_TOPDIR in the
> makefile and a couple items in setup.py)  This should work with
> grass_src/swig/python/display_driver, as you seem to have it Martin.
> Or something like grass_src/gui/wx/display_driver.
>
> Here are the files:
>
>
>
> (note: don't need makefile.in)
>
>
>
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