[Pyublas] PyUblas

[Andreas Kloeckner]

Dear Marco,

I am a PhD student at the University of Waterloo in the Department of
Statistics. I want to use your PyUblas library to use NumPy as a front
end to some Boost/ublas code I've written. I wouldn't want to bother
you through email, but I've googled for days without finding a
solution, and I am quite new to using the Boost.Python library, so I
hope this finds you at a convenient time.
I simply want to see if you have instructions on how to compile your
"doublify" example (in the "Show me! I need examples!" section). I am
somewhat confused as to what to do with the C++ file and the Python
script. I am doing everything in Ubuntu, BASH command line. Do I need
to use bjam with a Jamroot file to build from the cpp file?

I think this will hurt the least if you let Python's setuptools take
care of building your extension. See this file for an example:

https://github.com/inducer/hedge/blob/master/setup.py

To use the above, you'll also need to drop this file into your project:

https://github.com/inducer/hedge/blob/master/aksetup_helper.py

You'll be able to delete most of that setup.py, but I hope that this
will at least give you a glimpse of how to build your own project. If
you want to find out if something is expendable--delete it, try
building. :)

Hope that helps,
Andreas