Installation

C++ Capnproto Library

You need to install the C++ Capnproto library first. It requires a C++ compiler with C++11 support, such as GCC 4.7+ or Clang 3.2+. Follow installation docs at http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/install.html with an added sudo ldconfig after you’re done installing, or if you’re feeling lazy, you can run the commands below:

wget https://github.com/kentonv/capnproto/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd capnproto-master/c++
./setup-autotools.sh
autoreconf -i
./configure
make -j6 check
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Pip

Using pip is by far the easiest way to install the library. After you’ve installed the C++ library, all you need to run is:

pip install capnp

From Source

If you want the latest development version, you can clone the github repo and install like so:

git clone https://github.com/jparyani/capnpc-python-cpp.git
pip install capnpc-python-cpp

or:

cd capnpc-python-cpp
python setup.py install

If you don’t use pip, you will need to manually install Cython, and a setuptools with a version > .7.

Once you’re done installing, take a look at the Quickstart