View source for PySide Shiboken Tutorial

{{Cleanup | reason=Auto-imported from ExpressionEngine.}}

[[Category:PySide]]

= Simple Shiboken Binding Tutorial =

This is sample demonstration how to generate simple bindings with shiboken python binding generator. This tutorial was written by Roman Lacko in a recent [http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/pyside/2013-January/001009.html mailing list].

* ''FooLib'' project contains the library for which we want to generate the bindings
* ''FooLibBinding'' project contains the generated binding sources

== Software used: ==

* [http://releases.qt.io/qt4/source/qt-win-opensource-4.8.4-vs2010.exe Qt 4.8.4 MSVC 2010 64bit]
** Please note that by default Python 2.7 is built with msvc2008 and Python 3.3 with msvc2010. So in general you should use MSVC2008 to compile, however others have successfully completed this tutorial using MSVC2010.
* [http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/python-2.7.3.amd64.msi Python 2.7 64bit]
* [http://releases.qt.io/pyside/PySide-1.1.2.win-amd64-py2.7.exe PySide 1.1.2 for Python 2.7 64bit]
* [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0aOk3P0ndoLbkhwbWZncTlUM00/edit BindingTest.zip]

== Notes: ==

* Update the paths to python libs and includes in ''FooLibBinding\FooLibBinding.pro''. In this tutorial, it's assumed that python is installed in C:27_64. 

<code>
INCLUDEPATH ''= ../pyside/include/PySide  ../pyside/include/PySide/QtCore  ../pyside/include/shiboken  c:/Python27_64/include  ../FooLib

LIBS''= c:/Python27_64/libs/python27.lib  ../pyside/shiboken-python2.7.lib  ../FooLib-build-Desktop-Release/release/FooLib.lib
</code>

* Also update the path where you have installed Qt on your system in the files below
** Replace this "c:–4.8.4-msvc2010-x64" with your path

<code>
pyside\include\PySide\pyside_global.h
FooLib\generate_binding.bat
</code>

* Note that if you decide to experiment with using mingw, you will need to change the .lib extension to .a

== To generate and test the bindings do the following: ==

# Install PySide
# Copy content of ''C:27\Lib\site-packages\PySide'' to ''BindingTest\PySide'' folder
# Compile ''FooLib'' project
# Run ''FooLib\generate_binding.bat''
# Compile ''FooLibBinding'' project
# Run ''FooLibBinding\make_package.bat''