How to specify more than one include directories for setup.py from command line?

Question

Here I found how to write setup.py file for compiling my own C/C++ modules for python, but I can't specify more than one include directories from command line.

Please tell me the syntax how should I specify a list of directories from command line for setup.py.

Answer 1

I found the solution it should look like this

python setup.py build_ext --inplace --library-dirs=lib_dir1;lib_dir2 --include-dirs=inc_dir1;inc_dir2

Answer 2

The help for setup.py tells, you can specify multiple values delimited by ":"

Shortened output:

$ python setup.py build_ext --help
Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)

  setup.py build      will build the package underneath 'build/'
  setup.py install    will install the package

Options for 'build_ext' command:
  --include-dirs (-I)  list of directories to search for header files
                       (separated by ':')

Answer 3

alternative option inside setup.py:

#! /bin/python
environ['CPPFLAGS'] = '-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include'
environ['LDFLAGS'] = '-L/usr/local/opt/lib1/lib -L/usr/local/opt/lib2/lib'

alternative option from unix cli:

#! /bin/bash
export CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include'
export LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/opt/lib1/lib -L/usr/local/opt/lib2/lib'

fyi, I used the environ example to install pycurl from my projects setup.py after searching for a long time.