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diff --git a/bindings/README b/bindings/README index 3cc3735..66b6790 100644 --- a/bindings/README +++ b/bindings/README @@ -1,3 +1,38 @@ +Building Perl or Python (through swig) +------------- + +Using autotools +--------------- +See swig/packages/README + +Using CMake +----------- +Building the SWIG (Perl, Python) bindings with the CMake toolchain requires installing +the CMake application appropriate to your operating system (most Linux distributions +will have this as an existing package as CMake is integral to building many popular +applications). + +Additionally you will need the development packages for the language you are targeting +and the swig application itself. All of these should be directly available through your +distribution's package system. + +Python: In Fedora you can get this with a 'yum install python-devel' and a similar call +to apt-get in Debian/Ubuntu/etc. +Perl: In Fedora you're looking for 'yum install perl-devel' and the equivalent package +in Debian/Ubuntu/etc. + +After this, you need to add the argument -DSWORD_BINDINGS="Python" or +-DSWORD_BINDINGS="Perl" when you invoke CMake. If you wish to build both bindings then +just call -DSWORD_BINDINGS="Python Perl" instead. This needs to be done at the level of +the whole SWORD library and not just here within the bindings directory. The files will +be installed to their standard system-wide location when you run 'make install' with +the rest of the library. + +If you wish to install the Python bindings to another directory instead you can specify +the option -DSWORD_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR="/some/other/path" at configure time. No comparable +option is currently available for the Perl bindings because the maintainer is unaware +of how to implement it. + Building java ------------- |