[libvirt] libvirt: python bindings

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:52:45PM +0000, Sharadha Prabhakar (3P) wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm writing XenServer APIs for libvirt and trying to test it on virt-Manager.
> I need to build the libvirt python bindings for that.
> I tried this for libvirt.
> ./configure -with-xenapi -with-python

You need to use  --  not just -  with arguments, eg --with-python

> make
> make install
> 
> I suppose this is supposed to build a .libs directory with libvirtmod.so in the ~/libvirt/python/
> But I don't seem to have this at all after build. It was a clean build with no errors.
> I need libvirtmod.so to link with virt-manager. I'm using libvirt version 0.7.4
> Can anyone help me with this. Am I missing something here

Also make sure you have python-devel RPM installed (or equivalent) and
have not disabled shared libraries when running configure.

Regards,
Daniel
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