python env setup

Usage:

Basic instructions for use with Avida can be found on
the Devolab's web site.

Read more detailed instructions at
red-bean.com's online Subversion pages.

Requirements:

None.

The MinGW project provides a native compiler for Windows based on GCC. If we compiled with Cygwin, the executable would need the Cygwin compatibility DLL.

Installation:

Download MinGW at
MinGW Home
. Also install MSYS and the MSYS Developer toolkit. This provides a bash shell and make. Unpack the latest w32-api, automake, and autoconf tarballs in the MinGW directory.

Requirements:

None.

Installation:

Download and run the CMake installer for Windows via
http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.0/CMSetup206.exe

Basic instructions for use with Avida can be found in the file "
README
" in the top-level Avida source code directory. Read more detailed instructions at
CMake's online documentation pages.

What is it?

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It permits rapid experimentation with and design of new parts of the Avida-Ed GUI without recompilation of c++ parts of Avida. Our Python code is then embedded in the double-clickable Avida-Ed application, along with a Python interpreter, and is run when Avida-Ed is launched.

Requirements:

Readline is suggested but not required. Using the Python interpreter without Readline's command-line editing, tab-completion, and history is pretty tedious. There are no other requirements.

Installation:

Download and install Python
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/python-2.4.1.msi

GCC compatible versions of the Python libraries need to be generated. Cygwin comes with programs called pexports and dlltool to help with this.
Instructions for generating GCC compatible Python library

pexports.exe /c/WINDOWS/system32/python24.dll > python24.def dlltool --dllname python24.dll --def python24.def --output-lib libpython24.a cp libpython24.a c:\python24\libs

Where things are installed:

Python 2.4 is installed at
C:\Python24
by default.

Usage:

Oodles of instruction can be had at
Python's documentation pages.

Readline isn't absolutely required, but it does help with development and is recommended. You can pickup a windows Python module at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uncpythontools/
. Download and unpack the Readline Python package
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/uncpythontools/readline-1.12.win32.exe
into the directory of your choice using cygwin; for example:

Requirements:

ctypes modules: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes

$ cd ~/src


$ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/uncpythontools/readline-1.12.win32.exe

Build and install. This is easy, just click on the installer in explorer or execute it from the command line.

We can use the GPL version of Qt/PyQt, because of the wonderful work from the kde-cygin project and kscraft project. This does not require Cygwin, and will compile under MinGW.

$ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/qtwin/qt-win-free-3.3.4-3-src.tar.bz2?download


$ tar xvfj qt-win-free-3.3.4-3.src.tar.bz2

Qt/Win and some of the third-party software that depends on Qt/Win require that certain environment variables be set. For example, if you use
bash
as your shell:

$ cd qt-3


$ export QTDIR=`pwd`


$ export MINGW=/c/MinGW


$ export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin:$QTDIR/lib:$MINGW/bin:/c/Python24


$ export QMAKESPEC=win32-g++

Configure and build:

$ configure.bat

If the build dies in the middle, execute the following:

$ mingw32-make

SIP requires that the
$QTDIR
,
$PATH
, and
$MINGW
environment variables point to your Qt/Windows installation, so set them accordingly if they aren't already set. For example, if you use
bash
as your shell:

$ export QTDIR=/c/cygwin/home/josh/src/qt-3


$ export MINGW=/c/mingw


$ export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin:$QTDIR/lib:/c/Python24

Download and unpack the SIP source archive
http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/download/sip/sip-4.1.1.tar.gz
into the directory of your choice using MSYS; for example:

$ cd /c/cygwin/home/josh/src


$ wget http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/download/sip/sip-4.3.tar.gz


$ tar xvfz sip-4.3.tar.gz

Patch to build on Windows. As documented on this page:
http://kscraft.sourceforge.net/convert_xhtml.php?doc=pyqt-windows-install.xhtml
, there is a patch you need to apply to SIP if you download it directly from Riverbank. To download and apply the patch:

$ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kscraft/sip-4.1.1.diff?download


$ cd sip-4.3


$ patch -p1 < ../sip-4.1.1.diff

Configure, build, and install, make SURE you do this in either the windows command shell or the MSYS shell.

If you are using MSYS:

$ cd sip-4.3


$ /c/python24/python configure.py -l qt-mt -p win32-g++ DEL_FILE=rm COPY=cp MKDIR=mkdir


$ make


$ make install

If you are using Windows cmd:

$ cd sip-4.3


$ c:\python24\python configure.py -l qt-mt -p win32-g++


$ mingw32-make


$ mingw32-make install

PyQt requires that the
$QTDIR
,
$PATH
, and
$MINGW
environment variables point to your Qt/Windows installation, so set them accordingly if they aren't already set. For example, if you use
bash
as your shell:

$ export QTDIR=/c/cygwin/home/josh/src/qt-3


$ export MINGW=/c/mingw


$ export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin:$QTDIR/lib:/c/Python24

Download and unpack the PyQt source archive
http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/download/PyQt/PyQt-mac-gpl-3.13.tar.gz
into the directory of your choice using Terminal.app; for example:

$ cd ~/src


$ wget http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/download/PyQt/PyQt-x11-gpl-3.15.tar.gz


$ tar xvfz PyQt-x11-gpl-3.15.tar.gz

Patch to build on Windows. As documented on this page:
http://kscraft.sourceforge.net/convert_xhtml.php?doc=pyqt-windows-install.xhtml
, there is a patch you need to apply to PyQt if you download it directly from Riverbank. To download and apply the patch:

$ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kscraft/PyQt-x11-3.13.diff


$ cd PyQt-x11-gpl-3.15


$ patch -p1 < ../PyQt-x11-3.13.diff

$ cd PyQt-x11-gpl-3.15


$ /c/python24/python configure.py


$ make


$ make install

If you are using Windows cmd:

$ cd PyQt-x11-gpl-3.15


$ c:\python24\python configure.py


$ mingw32-make


$ mingw32-make install

Download and unpack the Numeric Python package source archive
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/numpy/Numeric-24.0b2.tar.gz
into the directory of your choice using MSYS; for example:

$ cd ~/src


$ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/numpy/Numeric-24.0b2.tar.gz


$ tar xvfz Numeric-24.0b2.tar.gz

Build and install:

$ cd Numeric-24.0b2


$ python setup.py build -cmingw32


$ python setup.py install --skip-build

Download and unpack the Numarray Python package source archive
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/numpy/numarray-1.3.3.tar.gz
into the directory of your choice using MSYS; for example:

$ cd ~/src


$ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/numpy/numarray-1.3.3.tar.gz


$ tar xvfz numarray-1.3.3.tar.gz

Build and install:

$ cd numarray-1.3.3


$ python setup.py build -cmingw32


$ python setup.py install --skip-build

PyQwt requires that the
$QTDIR
,
$PATH
, and
$MINGW
environment variables point to your Qt/Windows installation, so set them accordingly if they aren't already set. For example, if you use
bash
as your shell:

$ export QTDIR=/c/cygwin/home/josh/src/qt-3


$ export MINGW=/c/mingw


$ export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin:$QTDIR/lib:/c/Python24

Download and unpack the PyQwt-4.2 Python package source archive
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pyqwt/PyQwt-4.2.tar.gz
into the directory of your choice using cygwin; for example:

$ cd ~/src


$ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pyqwt/PyQwt-4.2.tar.gz


$ tar xvfz PyQwt-4.2.tar.gz

Build and install, using the Windows command shell.

$ cd PyQwt-4.2/configure


$ python configure.py


$ mingw32-make


$ mingw32-make install

Download and unpack the ElementTree Python package source archive
http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.tar.gz
into the directory of your choice

$ cd ~/src


$ wget http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.tar.gz


$ tar xfvz elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.tar.gz

Build and install:

$ cd elementtree-1.2.6-20050316


$ python setup.py build


$ python setup.py install

The CVS version of GCC-XML needs to be installed if you're using MinGW. The 0.6.0 version requires MSVC to be installed.

$ cd ~/src


$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@www.gccxml.org:/cvsroot/GCC_XML login


$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@www.gccxml.org:/cvsroot/GCC_XML co gccxml

Configure, build, and install:

$ cd gccxml


$ mkdir build


$ cd build


$ cmake .. -G"Unix Makefiles"


$ make

Download and unpack the Boost source archive
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/boost/boost_1_33_0.tar.gz
into the directory of your choice using cygwin; for example:

$ cd ~/src


$ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/boost/boost_1_33_0.tar.gz


$ tar xvfz boost_1_33_0.tar.gz

Build Boost.Jam, the Boost Build system. Use the Windows command shell to build it.

$ cd boost_1_33_0


$ cd tools\build\jam_src


$ build.bat gcc-nocygwin

Switch back over to MSYS. copy bin.ntx86/* to /usr/local/bin

$ cp tools/build/jam_src/bin.ntx86/bjam /usr/local/bin

Build Boost.Python (warning -- because Boost is a big package, most of which we don't need and would take a long time to compile, we disable most of Boost, resulting in a big and ugly command):

$ cd ..\..\..\


export PYTHON_ROOT=/c/Python24


export PYTHON_VERSION=2.4


$ bjam -sTOOLS=gcc-nocygwin \


-sBUILD=release \


--prefix=/usr/local \


--without-serialization \


--without-test \


--without-date_time \


--without-filesystem \


--without-regexp \


--without-signals \


--without-program_options \


--with-python-root=/c/Python24 \


-sPYTHON_VERSION=2.4

Install Boost.Python (again, a big and ugly command -- essentially the same as the previous, but appended with "
install
"):

$ bjam -sTOOLS=gcc-nocygwin \


"-sBUILD=release"


--prefix=/usr/local \


--without-serialization \


--without-test \


--without-date_time \


--without-filesystem \


--without-regexp \


--without-signals \


--without-program_options \


--with-python-root=/c/Python24 \


-sPYTHON_VERSION=2.4 \


install

After building it, we still need to compile and install the Boost.Python libraries.

$ cd libs/python/pyste/install


python setup.py install

First install the Python for Windows extensions
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pywin32/pywin32-204.win32-py2.4.exe

$ cd ~/src


$ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pywin32/pywin32-204.win32-py2.4.exe

Then run the installer

Download and unpack the IPython package source archive for Windows
http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.6.15.tar.gz
into the directory of your choice using cygwin; for example:

$ cd ~/src


$ wget http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.6.15.tar.gz


$ tar xvfz ipython-0.6.15.tar.gz

Install:

$ cd ipython-0.6.15


$ python setup.py install

Building is similiar to building on Mac OSX. This can all be done in the MSYS environment.

$ mkdir build


$ cd build


$ cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" \
-DAVD_CONSISTENCY_TEST_PRIMITIVE:BOOL=OFF \
-DAVD_PRIMITIVE:BOOL=ON \
-DAVD_UNIT_TESTS:BOOL=OFF \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug \
-DAVD_GUI_NCURSES:BOOL=ON \
-DAVD_PY_BINDINGS:BOOL=ON \
-DBOOST_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=/usr/local/include/boost-1_33 \
-DBOOST_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/local/lib/libboost_python-gcc.lib \
-DPYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=/c/Python24/include \
-DPYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/c/Python24/libs/python24.lib \
-DAVD_GUI_PYQT:BOOL=ON \
..

Before compiling Avida, you will need to set your GCCXML_FLAGS. Here is one that works for the latest version of MinGW (GCC 3.4.2)

export GCCXML_FLAGS="-D__DBL_MIN_EXP__='(-1021)' -D__FLT_MIN__='1.17549435e-38F' -D__CHAR_BIT__='8' -D__WCHAR_MAX__='65535U' -D__DBL_DENORM_MIN__='4.9406564584124654e-324' -D__FLT_EVAL_METHOD__='2' -D__DBL_MIN_10_EXP__='(-307)' -D__FINITE_MATH_ONLY__='0' -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__='2' -D_stdcall='__attribute__((__stdcall__))' -D__SHRT_MAX__='32767' -D__LDBL_MAX__='1.18973149535723176502e+4932L' -D__LDBL_MAX_EXP__='16384' -D__SCHAR_MAX__='127' -D__USER_LABEL_PREFIX__='_' -D__STDC_HOSTED__='1' -D__WIN32='1' -D__LDBL_HAS_INFINITY__='1' -D__DBL_DIG__='15' -D__FLT_EPSILON__='1.19209290e-7F' -D__GXX_WEAK__='1' -D__tune_i686__='1' -D__LDBL_MIN__='3.36210314311209350626e-4932L' -D__DECIMAL_DIG__='21' -D__LDBL_HAS_QUIET_NAN__='1' -D__GNUC__='3' -D_cdecl='__attribute__((__cdecl__))' -D__DBL_MAX__='1.7976931348623157e+308' -D__WINNT='1' -D__DBL_HAS_INFINITY__='1' -D__WINNT__='1' -D_fastcall='__attribute__((__fastcall__))' -D__cplusplus='1' -D__USING_SJLJ_EXCEPTIONS__='1' -D__DEPRECATED='1' -D__DBL_MAX_EXP__='1024' -D__WIN32__='1' -D__GNUG__='3' -D__LONG_LONG_MAX__='9223372036854775807LL' -D__GXX_ABI_VERSION='1002' -D__FLT_MIN_EXP__='(-125)' -D__DBL_MIN__='2.2250738585072014e-308' -D__FLT_MIN_10_EXP__='(-37)' -D__DBL_HAS_QUIET_NAN__='1' -D__REGISTER_PREFIX__='' -D__cdecl='__attribute__((__cdecl__))' -D__NO_INLINE__='1' -D__i386='1' -D__FLT_MANT_DIG__='24' -D__VERSION__='3.4.2 (mingw-special)' -D_WIN32='1' -D_X86_='1' -Di386='1' -D__i386__='1' -D__SIZE_TYPE__='unsigned int' -D__FLT_RADIX__='2' -D__LDBL_EPSILON__='1.08420217248550443401e-19L' -D__MSVCRT__='1' -D__FLT_HAS_QUIET_NAN__='1' -D__FLT_MAX_10_EXP__='38' -D__LONG_MAX__='2147483647L' -D__FLT_HAS_INFINITY__='1' -D__stdcall='__attribute__((__stdcall__))' -D__EXCEPTIONS='1' -D__LDBL_MANT_DIG__='64' -D__WCHAR_TYPE__='short unsigned int' -D__FLT_DIG__='6' -D__INT_MAX__='2147483647' -DWIN32='1' -D__MINGW32__='1' -D__FLT_MAX_EXP__='128' -D__DBL_MANT_DIG__='53' -D__WINT_TYPE__='short unsigned int' -D__LDBL_MIN_EXP__='(-16381)' -D__WCHAR_UNSIGNED__='1' -D__LDBL_MAX_10_EXP__='4932' -D__DBL_EPSILON__='2.2204460492503131e-16' -D__tune_pentiumpro__='1' -D__fastcall='__attribute__((__fastcall__))' -DWINNT='1' -D__FLT_DENORM_MIN__='1.40129846e-45F' -D__FLT_MAX__='3.40282347e+38F' -D__GNUC_MINOR__='4' -D__DBL_MAX_10_EXP__='308' -D__LDBL_DENORM_MIN__='3.64519953188247460253e-4951L' -D__PTRDIFF_TYPE__='int' -D__LDBL_MIN_10_EXP__='(-4931)' -D__LDBL_DIG__='18' -D__declspec(x)=__attribute__((x)) -iwrapper c:/cygwin/home/gerrishj/src/gccxml/GCC_XML/Support/GCC/3.4 -I/mingw/include -I/mingw/include/c++/3.4.2 -I/mingw/include/c++/3.4.2/mingw32 -I/mingw/lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/include -include c:/cygwin/home/gerrishj/src/gccxml/GCC_XML/Support/GCC/3.4/gccxml_builtins.h"

Then compile Avida

make