setup.py

try:
    from setuptools import setup
except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup

from subprocess import call
import sys
import os
# Python 3.3 offers shutil.which()
from distutils import spawn

def warningOrError(errorOnFailure, msg):
  if errorOnFailure:
    raise Exception(msg)
  else:
    print(msg)

def generateIDL():
  errorOnFailure = not os.path.exists(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'OMPythonIDL', '__init__.py'))
  try:
    omhome = os.path.split(os.path.split(os.path.realpath(spawn.find_executable("omc")))[0])[0]
  except:
    omhome = None
  omhome = omhome or os.environ.get('OPENMODELICAHOME')

  if omhome is None:
    warningOrError(errorOnFailure, "Failed to find OPENMODELICAHOME (searched for environment variable as well as the omc executable)")
    return
  idl = os.path.join(omhome,"share","omc","omc_communication.idl")
  if not os.path.exists(idl):
    warningOrError(errorOnFailure, "Path not found: %s" % idl)
    return

  if 0!=call(["omniidl","-bpython","-Wbglobal=_OMCIDL","-Wbpackage=OMPythonIDL",idl]):
    warningOrError(errorOnFailure, "omniidl command failed")
    return
  print("Generated OMPythonIDL files")

if sys.platform != 'win32':
  generateIDL()

setup(name='OMPython',
      version='2.0.7',
      description='OpenModelica-Python API Interface',
      author='Anand Kalaiarasi Ganeson',
      author_email='ganan642@student.liu.se',
      maintainer='Adeel Asghar',
      maintainer_email='adeel.asghar@liu.se',
      license="BSD, OSMC-PL 1.2, GPL (user's choice)",
      url='http://openmodelica.org/',
      packages=['OMPython', 'OMPython.OMParser', 'OMPythonIDL', 'OMPythonIDL._OMCIDL', 'OMPythonIDL._OMCIDL__POA'],
      install_requires=[
        # 'omniORB', # Required, but not part of pypi
        'pyparsing',
        'numpy'
      ]
)