Build and install from source

[Zed-Wu]

Thanks a lot for your fantastic work!

I want to modify and fine-tune some C++ code but cannot figure out how to build and install from the source. Could you please write a simple guidance of how to build and install the panda_py from the source code?

update: I successfully build the _core.so and libfranka.so, and use make install to install the .so file, but how to make and install the python library? Currently I can not import panda_py from my own project.

Many thanks.

[JeanElsner]

Yes, those shared libraries contain the CPython modules, but they need to additionally be packaged as a proper Python package (there is also some native Python code, e.g. to interact with the Desk). This project uses scikit-build-core as a build backend, so really the proper way to build from source is to run either python -m build . or pip install . to both build and install. I will also provide a proper guide as part of the documentation.