From b1261ed0287227f805cf1888518975becf13e3c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Floris Bruynooghe <flub@google.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:53:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] WIP: First stop towards python bindings

This is a very rough first stab at compiling CFFI Python bindings
for deltachat-core.
---
 python/setup.py                | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 python/src/deltachat/_build.py | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/mrmailbox.h                |  6 ++++++
 src/mrmsg.h                    |  4 ++++
 4 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 python/setup.py
 create mode 100644 python/src/deltachat/_build.py

diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3e834d45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import setuptools
+
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    name='deltachat',
+    version='0.1',
+    description='Python bindings for deltachat-core using CFFI',
+    author='Delta Chat contributors',
+    setup_requires=['cffi>=1.0.0'],
+    install_requires=['cffi>=1.0.0'],
+    packages=setuptools.find_packages('src'),
+    package_dir={'': 'src'},
+    cffi_modules=['src/deltachat/_build.py:ffibuilder'],
+    classifiers=[
+        'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+        'Topic :: Communications :: Email',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/python/src/deltachat/_build.py b/python/src/deltachat/_build.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..65d00ce1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/src/deltachat/_build.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+
+import cffi
+
+
+ffibuilder = cffi.FFI()
+ffibuilder.set_source(
+    'deltachat.capi',
+    """
+    #include <deltachat/mrmailbox.h>
+    """,
+    libraries=['deltachat'],
+)
+with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='r') as fp:
+    proc = subprocess.run(['gcc', '-E', '-o', fp.name, '-DPY_CFFI=1',
+                           '../src/mrmailbox.h'])
+    proc.check_returncode()
+    ffibuilder.cdef(fp.read())
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    ffibuilder.compile(verbose=True)
diff --git a/src/mrmailbox.h b/src/mrmailbox.h
index 10d55bdc..70d8c87f 100644
--- a/src/mrmailbox.h
+++ b/src/mrmailbox.h
@@ -147,15 +147,21 @@ extern "C" {
  */
 
 
+#ifndef PY_CFFI
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <libetpan/libetpan.h> /* defines uint16_t */
 #include "mrarray.h"
+#endif
 #include "mrchatlist.h"
+#ifndef PY_CFFI
 #include "mrchat.h"
+#endif
 #include "mrmsg.h"
 #include "mrcontact.h"
+#ifndef PY_CFFI
 #include "mrlot.h"
 #include "mrevent.h"
+#endif
 
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/mrmsg.h b/src/mrmsg.h
index d2c6dde9..58e2eb25 100644
--- a/src/mrmsg.h
+++ b/src/mrmsg.h
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
+#ifdef PY_CFFI
+typedef int... time_t;
+#endif
+
 
 typedef struct _mrmailbox mrmailbox_t;