10.3 distutils.unixccompiler -- Unix C Compiler

This module provides the UnixCCompiler class, a subclass of CCompiler that handles the typical Unix-style command-line C compiler:

• macros defined with -Dname[=value]
• macros undefined with -Uname
• include search directories specified with -Idir
• libraries specified with -llib
• library search directories specified with -Ldir
• compile handled by cc (or similar) executable with -c option: compiles .c to .o
• link static library handled by ar command (possibly with ranlib)
• link shared library handled by cc -shared

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