I am currently working on a project requiring me to extend Python with a C library, and I will be using SWIG on Ubuntu. Worth noting is that I'm doing this on a computer at my university, and I don't have access to su or sudo commands. In order to generate a wrapper file I enter
gcc -fpic -c output_test.c interface_wrap.c \ -I/usr/bin/Python2.7
This line works perfectly when setting up PyDev on Eclipse, but doesn't work here, which, as far as I can tell from googling the problem, can be solved by installing python-dev. So I downloaded python-dev, v. 2.7.3 for ubuntu and unpacked it. I have been unable to find any guide whatsoever that describes a manual installation of python-dev, so I'm pretty much stuck here. After the unpacking, then what? Looking at the unpacked folders, I am able to find that there are two files in the ~/python-dev/usr/bin-folder:
- python-config
- python2-config
Neither is executable. In fact, Ubuntu treats them as broken links. So what am I supposed to do at this point? And why is there such a lack of a comprehensible guides for installing this?
sudo apt-get install python-dev
?