Numpy distutils howto
Question: I spent almost an hour googling for the solution, but the documentation for
numpy.distutils is very sparse.

I have a f2py-wrapped module. It consists basically of 3 files:

    
    
    a.f90
    a.pyf
    lib.a <- this is a static library that contains most of the computational code
    

The module is well compiled with the following shell-script command.

    
    
    f2py --build-dir temp -c a.pyf a.f90 lib.a --fcompiler=gnu95   
    --fcompiler-flags="Zillions of compiler options"
    

As a result, I have the python module a.so (the name is specified in the .pyf
file).

How do I do that with numpy.distutils (or some other python-oriented building
tools)? A less important question is, can I also include the dependence from
lib.a (and rebuild it when necessary?)


Answer: So, it is not 1 hour of Googling, it took 2 days of Googling, but finally I
found the way to do that. Hope, it will be helpful to someone.

    
    
      def configuration(parent_package='',top_path=None):
          from numpy.distutils.misc_util import Configuration, get_info
          config = Configuration('a', parent_package, top_path)
          lib = ['./libdir/lib.a']
          src = ['a.f90','a.pyf']
          inc_dir = ['libdir']              
          config.add_extension('mya',sources=src,depends=lib_tt,
                          include_dirs=inc_dir,extra_objects="lib.a")
          #The main trick was to use extra_objects keyword
          return config
    
      if __name__ == '__main__':
          from numpy.distutils.core import setup
          setup(**configuration(top_path='').todict())
    

