Installing required libraries

ASP currently requires Python 2.6+, plus the following libraries:

• CodePy, a library to simplify Just-in-Time compilation and its sub-project, cgen:
  • git clone http://git.tiker.net/trees/codepy.git
  • git clone http://git.tiker.net/trees/cgen.git
• Numpy, a part of the Scipy package
• Mako, a templating library
• Pytools
• Mock, a sane mocking library for writing tests
• Boost.Python, required by CodePy. Compiling Boost from source is a pain, so rely on a package manager if possible (such as apt or brew). (MacOS X Instructions: Installing Boost on MacOS X)

In order to connect Boost.Python and CodePy, you may need to specify some things in ~/.aksetup-defaults.py. For MacOS 10.6, I have:

      BOOST_INC_DIR=['/Users/skamil/source/boost_1_43_0']
      BOOST_LIB_DIR=['/Users/skamil/source/boost_1_43_0/stage/lib']
      BOOST_PYTHON_LIBNAME=['boost_python']

For Ubuntu 10.10, I have:

      BOOST_PYTHON_LIBNAME=['boost_python-mt-py26']

For Ubuntu 11.04, I have:

      BOOST_PYTHON_LIBNAME=['boost_python-mt-py27']

For FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, I have:

      BOOST_INC_DIR=['/usr/local/include']
      BOOST_LIB_DIR=['/usr/local/lib']
      BOOST_PYTHON_LIBNAME=['boost_python']

If you don't set this up correctly, you will receive the error message "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_python-gcc43-mt".

Python 3 is currently not tested. Tested on Python 2.6 with Ubuntu 10.10 and MacOS X 10.6, and with Python 2.7.1+ on Ubuntu 11.04. For FreeBSD 8.2, tested with Python 2.7.2 installed via ports. For Ubuntu, all but CodePy can be installed via apt-get:

     sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-mako libboost-python-dev python-pytools python-mock

For FreeBSD, the following ports should be installed:

     py27-numpy, py27-mako, py27-sqlite3, boost-python-libs

along with their dependencies. Otherwise, use easy_install or pip to install the rest of the required libraries:

     unittest2, mock, cgen, codepy