cc1plus: warning: command line option “-Wstrict-prototypes” is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++

Question

I am building a C++ extension for use in Python. I am seeing this warning being generated during the compilation process - when a type:

python setup.py build         


        

Answer 1

Removing -Wstrict-prototypes from the OPT environment variable has no effect. What works is to subclass build_ext as follows:

from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
from distutils.sysconfig import customize_compiler

class my_build_ext(build_ext):
    def build_extensions(self):
        customize_compiler(self.compiler)
        try:
            self.compiler.compiler_so.remove("-Wstrict-prototypes")
        except (AttributeError, ValueError):
            pass
        build_ext.build_extensions(self)

and then use my_build_ext inside the setup function:

setup(cmdclass = {'build_ext': my_build_ext})