Commit f600c1d8 by Wenzel Jakob

updated FAQ section on Python detection

parent ca8dc08a
......@@ -24,24 +24,17 @@ The Python interpreter immediately crashes when importing my module
See item 2 of the first answer.
CMake doesn't detect the right Python version, or it finds mismatched interpreter and library versions
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CMake doesn't detect the right Python version
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The Python detection logic of CMake is flawed and can sometimes fail to find
the desired Python version, or it chooses mismatched interpreter and library
versions. A longer discussion is available on the pybind11 issue tracker
[#f1]_, though this is ultimately not a pybind11 issue.
To force the build system to choose a particular version, delete CMakeCache.txt
and then invoke CMake as follows:
The CMake-based build system will try to automatically detect the installed
version of Python and link against that. When this fails, or when there are
multiple versions of Python and it finds the wrong one, delete
``CMakeCache.txt`` and then invoke CMake as follows:
.. code-block:: bash
cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=<...> \
-DPYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=<...> \
-DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=<...> .
.. [#f1] http://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/99
cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=<path-to-python-executable> .
Limitations involving reference arguments
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