Installation¶
This part of the documentation covers the installation of Glud.
Glud is a pure Python package, with minimal dependencies, but does expect that libclang (the native code library that exposes the stable bindings to the Clang compiler) is installed and can be dynamically loaded.
For Python 2 development, it’s also recommended that you install the Python bindings that match your libclang, rather than relying on versions provided by PyPI.
Prerequisites¶
On Ubuntu distributions, the easiest way to get an appropriate build of libclang you can install pre-built binaries from the LLVM apt repositories.
Ubuntu Trusty (14.04)¶
In your terminal, enter the following commands to install libclang:
wget -O - http://llvm.org/apt/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb http://llvm.org/apt/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty-3.8 main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update -qq
sudo apt-get install -y python-clang-3.8 libclang1-3.8
You can then add libclang.so to your loader path, which makes the library discoverable.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/llvm-3.8/lib