Originally I believed I needed the .o files to make the bindings. The
linking failed due to a missing .so link in Fedora or by using make
install-lib from the cpupower directory. Amend the makefile and the
README.
Big thanks to Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com> for the help.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250429204711.127274-1-jwyatt@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: "John B. Wyatt IV" <jwyatt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "John B. Wyatt IV" <sageofredondo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Installs the .so and .py files generated by SWIG to system's site packages
directory. This allows the Python bindings to be used system wide. This
commit also includes documentation on setting up and installing the Python
bindings.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241219012606.38963-1-jwyatt@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: "John B. Wyatt IV" <jwyatt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "John B. Wyatt IV" <sageofredondo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
SWIG is a tool packaged in Fedora and other distros that can generate
bindings from C and C++ code for several languages including Python,
Perl, and Go.
These bindings allows users to easily write scripts that use and extend
libcpupower's functionality. Currently, only Python is provided in the
makefile, but additional languages may be added if there is demand.
Added suggestions from Shuah Khan for the README and license discussion.
Note that while SWIG itself is GPL v3+ licensed; the resulting output,
the bindings code, is permissively licensed + the license of the .o
files. Please see
https://swig.org/legal.html and [1] for more details.
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/Zqv9BOjxLAgyNP5B@hatbackup/
Suggested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John B. Wyatt IV <jwyatt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John B. Wyatt IV <sageofredondo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
John B. Wyatt IV