How to properly include the directory in distutils

Question

I have a pretty basic question regarding building Python extensions with C++. In one of my header files, I have a line #include "veins_python/veins_python.h" , which is a relative path that Python does not see. When I run python setup.py build , I get

In file included from MyVeinsAppRoss.cc:24:
MyVeinsAppRoss.h:25:10: fatal error: veins_python/veins_python.h: No such file or directory
   25 | #include "veins_python/veins_python.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

I have tried to give an give an absolute path to veins_python.h in my setup.py file

module1 = Extension('MyTest',
                    include_dirs = ["~/veins_python_practice/src/veins_python"],
                    sources = ['MyVeinsAppRoss.cc']
                    )

and also the path just before the veins_python directory

module1 = Extension('MyTest',
                    include_dirs = ["~/veins_python_practice/src"],
                    sources = ['MyVeinsAppRoss.cc']
                    )

But the error does not change. Could somebody help?

Answer 1

The issue is that it is that you have to type the home directory as /home/username , ie ~ will not work.