Installing a python wrapper for a c++ library

Question

I am trying to install the python wrapper for the ANN (approx near neighbors) c++ library: link is http://www.scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/AnnWrapper . I am on Windows 7 32-bit.

Unfortunately the documentation is a bit terse and I am a newbie to programming in general, so I cannot decipher the instructions found within. I have not built a C++ library before and am not even sure how to get that far. Can anyone please guide?

Thanks!

gene

Answer 1

To install Rob Hetland's wrapper you'll need to execute the following command (or one very similar depending on the C compiler installed on your system) in the directory that you've extracted the archive into:

python setup.py build install

or

python setup.py build install --compiler=mingw32

If you don't have a C compiler, or are getting errors, try looking here:

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Ming32 - gcc compatible compiler for Windows

Using Microsoft Visual Studio Express