[chimera-dev] numpy library compiled to run with other libraries inside Chimera

[Konrad Hinsen]

On 12 Jul 2011, at 22:02, Terry Lang wrote:

>         I use Chimera as a back end library for a bunch of my code.  I
> occasionally run into a function that an external library, scipy for
> example, has already implemented.  I have found the chimera flag that
> allows me to import python libraries for use.  However, because  
> numpy is
> already distributed with Chimera, importing libraries that depend on
> numpy is almost _impossible_.

What I do is install such third-party modules from source, using  
Chimera's Python. Here's the script I use under MacOS:

#!/bin/bash
chimera_py=/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Frameworks/ 
Python.framework/Versions/2.7
export PYTHONPATH=$chimera_py/lib/python2.7
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$chimera_py
$chimera_py/bin/python2.7 $*

Just use this instead of the "python" command to run the setup.py  
coming with various Python packages. A similar approach should work  
under Linux, for Windows I don't know.

Konrad.
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