Make Modelica ExternalObeject Development easier.

• Python intepreter and packaging tools
• Cookiecutter

Install Python for your operating system. Consult the official Python documentation for details.

pip and setuptools now come with Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.5. See the Python Packaging Authority’s (PyPA) documentation Requirements for Installing Packages for full details.

Cookiecutter is a command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. creating a Python package project from a Python package project template.

• Documentation: https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io
• GitHub: /~https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter
• PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cookiecutter

For detailed cookiecutter installation for your system, please check out cookiecutter installation documentation.

if you have pip on linux, just do this for your python environment:

pip install cookiecutter

To generate the project:

cookiecutter gh:hyumo/modelica-extobj-template

After you give the project a proper name, to test if the project is created correctly:

cd <PROJECT_NAME>
make

You should see a dummy testcase PASSED:

...
tests/test_{{cookiecutter.project_name}}.c:17:test_dummy:PASS

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1 Tests 0 Failures 0 Ignored 
OK