PYTHON-CONFIG(1)

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💖 PYTHON-CONFIG(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for python-config — yes that's the manual name right there, we're not doing a boring header line, we're doing ✨vibes✨.

🌸 NAME 🌸

python-config — spits out the build options you need for python C/C++ extensions, or for embedding, no cap 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

python-config [ --prefix ] [ --exec-prefix ] [ --includes ] [ --libs ] [
--cflags ] [ --ldflags ] [ --extension-suffix ] [ --abiflags ] [ --help
]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. python-config is the girl who helps you compile and link your programs 🔥 — the ones that embed the Python interpreter, or the extension modules that get loaded dynamically (like, at run time, bestie) into the interpreter. she's got you 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --abiflags — prints the ABI flags, as specified by PEP 3149. (the original totally says "the the", we're not judging, we're just printing the ABI flags 💖)
  • --cflags — prints the C compiler flags.
  • --ldflags — prints the flags you should be passing to the linker.
  • --includes — basically --cflags's little sister, except it only gives you the -I options (that's the path to the python header files 📁).
  • --libs — same energy as --ldflags, except it only gives you the -l options (the libraries being used).
  • --prefix — prints the prefix (the base directory) that python lives under 🏠.
  • --exec-prefix — prints the prefix used for executable program directories (think bin, sbin, etc.).
  • --extension-suffix — prints the extension suffix used for binary extensions.
  • --help — prints the usage message. classic.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

🍓 building a single-file c program

say you wanna build the single-file c program prog against the python library — use:

gcc $(python-config --cflags --ldflags) progr.cpp -o progr.cpp

🧚 same thing but in a makefile

CFLAGS+=$(shell python-config --cflags)
LDFLAGS+=$(shell python-config --ldflags)
all: progr

💜 building a dynamically loadable python module

gcc $(python-config --cflags --ldflags) -shared -fPIC progr.cpp
-o progr.so

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

💀 AUTHORS 💀

this manual page was written by Johann Felix Soden <johfel@gmx.de> for the Debian project (and yes, it may be used by others, slay 🫶).

fr fr that's the whole page, nothing skipped, every flag accounted for 💅

so yeah, that's the General Commands Manual version — November 27, 2011, babes, and it's giving iconic. periodt. ✨🎀🦋

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