Installation of Python Implementation¶

External Dependencies¶

• install python setuptools and python-dev
• spread-python (e.g. via GAR installer, sources can be downloaded here: http://www.spread.org/files/SpreadModule-1.5spread4.tgz, the version automatically installed by setuptools is NOT working!)
• python-protobuf (via ubuntu package python-protobuf or protobuf sources)

Installation¶

1. Install RSBProtocol as described here
2. get sources
3. create and edit setup.cfg
   • in contrast to cmake or partially ant, setuptools does not use command line arguments to configure projects. Instead a file called setup.cfg in the project root is used: http://docs.python.org/distutils/configfile.html
   • especially, replace protocolroot in section [proto] with the path to the RSBPRobotocol files (e.g. protocolroot=${prefix}/share/RSBProtocol)
   • other available options (besides standard ones from python):
     • protoc in section [proto]: The protoc compiler used to generate the protocol. If not specified PATH is used.
     • format in section [doc]: either "html" or "pdf" for the API documentation generation
     • verbose in section [doc]: bool flag to control verbose output of the generation tool epydoc
     • spread in sections [coverage] and [test]: path to the spread executable used for coverage generation and unit testing. PATH is used if not specified
   • An exemplary setup.cfg file could look like this:
     

     [proto]
     protocolroot=/your/prefix/share/RSBProtocol
     [test]
     spread=/your/prefix/sbin/spread
     [coverage]
     spread=/your/prefix/sbin/spread
     

4. start building and installation
   

   export PYTHONPATH=$prefix/lib/python2.X/site-packages
   python setup.py build
   python setup.py install --prefix=$prefix
   

Afterwards, import rsb should be possible in a python shell.