11.3 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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