Haiku-PyAPI

Python bindings for the Haiku API.

This lets you build apps for Haiku using the Haiku API directly from Python.

For the most part, Haiku-PyAPI tries to copy the C++ API. There are some places where we have had to deviate from the C++ API, however.

Current status

Virtually everything from Haiku's API is available. It is likely that you will run into some bugs if you try to make an application. Please report them! Also, there's a good chance we can give you a workaround to use until it is fixed.

Probably, the biggest bug is memory leaks. Unless memory management for a class was simple for us to do, it is likely that we opted to never free the memory so that we could worry about memory management later!

Installing

From HaikuPorts

Installation on Haiku is easy, just run

pkgman install haiku_pyapi_python310

If you need the latest widgets and bugfixes, then you should compile from source, see below.

From source

First, clone the source code, with submodules:

git clone https://github.com/coolcder613eb/Haiku-PyAPI --recursive

The basic build command to build using all CPU cores is

jam -j$(nproc)

Extra build parameters can be specified, as discussed below.

Finally, to install, simply run

jam install

Haiku-PyAPI should now be installed and ready to use.

Build parameters

The build parameters can be used to change how the build is done. This can be used to, for example, specify a different verson of python to build for. To specify a build parameter, add -sPARAMETER=VALUE to the build command line.

Parameter	Description
python_version	Version of python to build for. Default: 3.10
py	Alias of `python_version`
type	Debug or release build. Default: release
build_location	Location to put build files. Default: build/python$(python_version)_$(type)
install_location	Where to install build files to. Default: /boot/system/non-packaged/lib/python$(python_version)/site-packages

Example projects

This repository contains example.py, which is a simple "Hello world" program. Other examples:

License

coolcoder613eb/Haiku-PyAPI

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