[cctbxbb] forcing building boost_python early in SConscript

[Billy Poon]

Hi Rob,

Are these features required before anything is built? Or are they
dependencies for Phaser that get linked during building? Can you send me
your SConscript file?

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 9:07 AM Robert Oeffner <rdo20 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> We are working on a newer version of Phaser. The new SConscript file for
> Phaser imports features from boost_python. Therefore it is currently not
> straightforward to build it since an empty build directory does not yet
> contain the boost_python module to be imported by SConscript (or
> python). So SCons crashes when it reads the new Phaser SCsonscript
> stating that boost_python cannot be imported. Currently our workaround
> is to first build CCTBX alone and then subsequently to build Phaser.
>
> My question is if it is possible to specify dependencies in
> cctbx_project/boost_adaptbx/SConscript to force building boost_python
> early on. On Windows boost_thread and a few other libraries are built
> before other SConscript files are read. So I have put some
> Depends(boost_thread,  boost_python) andDepends(boost_thread,
> boost_python_meta_ext)
> statements into cctbx_project/boost_adaptbx/SConscript. These do seem to
> force building the boost_python.lib and .dll files. But building the
> boost_python_meta_ext python module fails with the error:
> boost_adaptbx\meta_ext.cpp(14): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include
> file: 'boost_adaptbx/type_id_eq.h'
>
> It's possible that I'm not using SCons as it's supposed to be used. Let
> me know if anyone has a suggestion on how to force building boost_python
> before other SConscript are read.
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Rob
>
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