Using pybind not as add_subdirectory...

[Dariusz1989]

Hey

So I have a little complex library here and I need to be "in control" of what goes where/how...
Here is my RnD test that "builds" but fails to work/import in python... would any1 be able to look in to it ?

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.25)
project(exampleHowToPybind)

#add_compile_options(/Zi /MDd /Od)
#set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} /Zi /Od")
#set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} /DEBUG")

set(PY_BIND_ROOT "S:/01_Code//pybind11/include")
set(PY_VERSION 37)
set(PY_EXE "C:/Program Files/Python37")
set(Python3_ROOT_DIR "C:/Program Files/Python37")
set(Python_INCLUDE_DIRS "${Python3_ROOT_DIR}/include")
set(Python3_FIND_ABI "ON" "3" "7")
set(PYTHON_EXECUTABLE "${Python3_ROOT_DIR}/python.exe" CACHE FILEPATH "Path to the Python executable")


set(PY_BUILD_DEB)
if (${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} MATCHES Debug)
    message("WERE IN DEBUG MODE")
    set(PY_BUILD_DEB "_d")
endif ()
set(_PYTHON_EXECUTABLE "${PY_EXE}/python.exe" CACHE STRING "Path to the Python executable")
set(_PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR "${PY_EXE}/include" CACHE STRING "Path to the Python include directory")
set(_PYTHON_LIBRARY "${PY_EXE}/libs/python${PY_VERSION}${PY_BUILD_DEB}.lib" CACHE STRING "Path to the Python library")


set(OLD_PATH ${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH})
set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ${PY_EXE})
#find_package(Python3 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Interpreter Development)# HINTS "${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}")

#set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ${PY_BIND_ROOT}/tools)
#find_package(pybind11)

set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ${OLD_PATH})

message("  PYTHON_EXECUTABLE : ${_PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}")
message(" PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR : ${_PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR}")
message("     PYTHON_LIBRARY : ${_PYTHON_LIBRARY}")
message("   Python_LIBRARIES : ${Python_LIBRARIES}")
message("Python_INCLUDE_DIRS : ${Python_INCLUDE_DIRS}")

# include("${PY_BIND_ROOT}/CMakeLists.txt")

add_library(pybind11 INTERFACE)
target_include_directories(pybind11 INTERFACE ${PY_BIND_ROOT})


set(SRC main.cpp)

#add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} ${SRC})
add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} MODULE ${SRC})

set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES SUFFIX ".pyd" )


target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE pybind11 ${PYTHON_LIBRARY} "${PY_EXE}/libs/python${PY_VERSION}.lib")
target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${Python_INCLUDE_DIRS})

Now my current problem is that I can't use find_package. It works fine in Clion, but in visual studio 2022 it returns python 310 instead of 37 that I specified. No matter what I try he's ignoring my requests. In any case, I've decided to ignore that find package and link by hand....

Can any1 help out ?
@dean0x7d @henryiii

[henryiii]

The above is a jumble of settings that are from multiple ways to do things - you should not use FindPython and FindPythonInterp/Libs! Either you want PYTHON_* variables or Python_* variables, not both. Pybind11 supports either one, if you find_package(Python ...) before finding pybind11, then it will switch to that (newer) method of finding Python.

scikit-build-core example has an example of using the pybind11 pip package instead of a submodule (there it just works because scikit-build-core adds your site-packages to the prefix path automatically).