added comment about cmake issues (#99)

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Wenzel Jakob 2016-04-14 11:27:15 +02:00
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@ -64,6 +64,25 @@ and the binding code
m.def("foo", [](int i) { int rv = foo(i); return std::make_tuple(rv, i); });
CMake doesn't detect the right Python version, or it finds mismatched interpreter and library versions
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The Python detection logic of CMake is flawed and can sometimes fail to find
the desired Python version, or it chooses mismatched interpreter and library
versions. A longer discussion is available on the pybind11 issue tracker
[#f1]_, though this is ultimately not a pybind11 issue.
To force the build system to choose a particular version, delete CMakeCache.txt
and then invoke CMake as follows:
.. code-block:: bash
cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=<...> \
-DPYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=<...> \
-DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=<...> .
.. [#f1] http://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/99
Working with ancient Visual Studio 2009 builds on Windows
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@ -77,3 +96,4 @@ Common gotchas to watch out for involve not ``free()``-ing memory region
that that were ``malloc()``-ed in another shared library, using data
structures with incompatible ABIs, and so on. pybind11 is very careful not
to make these types of mistakes.