Installation

At this moment only Linux and MINGW64 platforms are supported.

Linux

Tested platform Ubuntu 20.04

Requirements

Following packages shall be preinstalled before proceeding the installation of PyCLP

Download

Download source files from PyCLP sources

Compilation & Installation

Setup Environmental variables for ECLiPSe:

ECLIPSEDIR environmental variable shall be set to the folder where is located ECLiPSe system. This is required for compiling and using PyCLP.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable shall contains the path of folder that contains the ECLiPSe sharable library. E.g. <eclipsedir>/lib/<platform>.

Installation

pip install pyclp

Generate wheel and source package

poetry build

Generated wheel packaged in folder dist can be installed using regular pip install

Regression test

poetry install
poetry run python  ./test/test.py
Generate documentation
poetry install
cd doc
poetry run make html

Tested environment

The present version of pyclp is tested on

  • Ubuntu 20.04 (64bit) , Python 3.11

However it is expected working on other platform that fullfil previous requirements.

Windows (MSYS2 MINGW64)

EclipseCLP 7.0 is built using gcc and the headers files cannot be compiled with Microsoft C compiler.

So it is assumed the following environment:

Environment Requirements

Environment variables

Setup Environmental variables for ECLiPSe:

ECLIPSEDIR environmental variable shall be set to the folder where is located ECLiPSe system. This is required for compiling and using PyCLP.

Binary installation

Download & Install

Download wheel package from PyCLP binaries and install using pip install

Build distribution packages from sources

Extra requirements

Following packages shall be preinstalled using pacman

  • mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain

  • mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pkginfo

  • mingw-w64-x86_64-python-poetry

  • mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pip

The following environment variable shall be set due to limitation of setuptool see Fails to install on MinGW x64

export SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib

Download

Download source files from PyCLP sources

Create wheel and source package

poetry build

Wheel distribution will be available in dist folder

Regression test

poetry install
poetry run python  ./test/test.py

Generate documentation

poetry install
cd doc
poetry run make html

Tested environment

The present version of pyclp is tested on

  • Windows 11 (64bit), Python 3.11

However it is expected working on other platform that fullfil the requirements.