...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Boost.Python uses several configuration macros in <boost/config.hpp>, as well as configuration macros meant to be supplied by the application. These macros are documented here.
These are the macros that may be defined by an application using Boost.Python. Note that if you extend a strict interpretation of the C++ standard to cover dynamic libraries, using different values of these macros when compiling different libraries (including extension modules and the Boost.Python library itself) is a violation of the ODR. However, we know of no C++ implementations on which this particular violation is detectable or causes any problems.
Macro | Default | Meaning |
---|---|---|
BOOST_PYTHON_MAX_ARITY |
15 | The maximum arity of any function, member function,
or constructor to be wrapped, invocation of a Boost.Python
function wich is specified as taking arguments
x1, x2, ...X n. This includes, in
particular, callback mechanisms such as object::operator()( ...)
or call_method<R>( ...
) . |
BOOST_PYTHON_MAX_BASES |
10 | The maximum number of template arguments to the
bases< ...>
class template, which is used to specify the bases of a wrapped C++
class.. |
BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_MODULE |
not defined | If defined, prevents your module initialization function from being treated as an exported symbol on platforms which support that distinction in-code |
BOOST_PYTHON_ENABLE_CDECL |
not defined | If defined, allows functions using the __cdecl
calling convention to be wrapped. |
BOOST_PYTHON_ENABLE_STDCALL |
not defined | If defined, allows functions using the __stdcall
calling convention to be wrapped. |
BOOST_PYTHON_ENABLE_FASTCALL |
not defined | If defined, allows functions using the __fastcall
calling convention to be wrapped. |
These macros are defined by Boost.Python and are implementation details of interest only to implementors and those porting to new platforms.
Macro | Default | Meaning |
---|---|---|
BOOST_PYTHON_TYPE_ID_NAME |
not defined | If defined, this indicates that the type_info
comparison across shared library boundaries does not work on this
platform. In other words, if shared-lib-1 passes
typeid(T) to a function in shared-lib-2 which compares
it to typeid(T) , that comparison may return
false . If this macro is #defined, Boost.Python uses and
compares typeid(T).name() instead of using and comparing
the std::type_info objects directly. |
BOOST_PYTHON_NO_PY_SIGNATURES |
not defined | If defined for a module no pythonic signatures are generated
for the docstrings of the module functions, and no python type is associated with any
of the converters registered by the module. This also reduces the binary size of the
module by about 14% (gcc compiled). If defined for the boost_python runtime library, the default for the docstring_options.enable_py_signatures() is set to false .
|
BOOST_PYTHON_SUPPORTS_PY_SIGNATURES |
defined if BOOST_PYTHON_NO_PY_SIGNATURES is undefined |
This macro is defined to enable a smooth transition from older Boost.Python versions which do not support pythonic signatures. For example usage see here. |
BOOST_PYTHON_PY_SIGNATURES_PROPER_INIT_SELF_TYPE |
not defined | If defined the python type of __init__ method "self" parameters
is properly generated, otherwise object is used. It is undefined
by default because it increases the binary size of the module by about 14% (gcc compiled). |
Revised 7 January, 2003
© Copyright Dave Abrahams 2002.