Building Apache QPID on Windows missing setup.py

Question

I am new to Apache Qpid, Cmake and Python. I have successfully built Qpid on Debian and ran some of the tests. I am now trying to build Qpid on Windows so that I can write a C# client, but something seems wrong. When I run the cmake command it ends up giving me to following output:

Please wait while cmake processes CMakeLists.txt files....

C:/Program Files (x86)/Python330/python.exe: can't open file 'setup.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Variable Name: BUILD_ACL 
Description: Build ACL enforcement broker plugin
Current Value: ON
New Value (Enter to keep current value):

I am trying to understand when setup.py should have been generated/downloaded. I can't find it and I can't find any documentation that describes when it should have been generated or installed. Also, somewhat off-topic, why did the cmake process start prompting me for BUILD_ACL and other configs?

I have ran cmake for both VS 2008 and 2010, using the following commands, and both yield the same output:

cmake -i -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" .
cmake -i -G "Visual Studio 2010" .

I am using the following file from Apache to build Qpid: qpid-cpp-0.18.tar.gz

As you can tell from the log statements above I am using Python 3.3.0.

I understand that the setup.py is a file used by Python for installing components. It appears that the cmake script is attempting to install something in the tests directory based on part of the cmake script I found by searching for setup.py. I would think this is something that would either be supplied in the Qpid tarball or somehow generated as part of this cmake process.

All that said, I ended up holding down the enter key accepting all the defaults of cmake and it generated the solution file and project files. I am able to open the resulting Qpid solution in VS2008 and build some of the projects. So, that raises the question, why was the setup.py needed?

Chug Chug · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-28T21:42:02

Qpid user questions get good responses when asked at [email protected] The qpid developers are fairly responsive to the mailing list.

cmake -i does an interactive configuration. That's why it asks for all the variable values. cmake without the -i goes with the defaults. It is possible to answer "y" to variables that should be 'n' for your system, producing a build environment that won't work. Try without the -i to get things started.

Running cmake twice in the same directory with two different generators is generally a bad practice. In your case it will generate a .sln file and .vcproj files for VS2008, and it will generate a .sln file and .vcxproj files for VS2010. If you do in-source builds the files may look the same but they are not. After you've run both cmake commands then the files will continue to look the same.

Unpack the source tarball again and try cmake using an out-of-source build.

mkdir b32-vs2010
cd b32-vs2010
cmake -G "Visual Studio 2010" ..\qpidc-0.18

Directory b32-vs2010 will have your 2010 solution and project files, and all the generated source files. It leaves the source directory clean and free of generated files.

This should run without a complaint about setup.py. If you continue to have trouble please take advantage of the users mailing list.

Building Apache QPID on Windows missing setup.py

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