Detecting External Libraries and Programs

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Detecting the Python interpreter
• Detecting the Python library
• Detecting Python modules and packages
• Detecting the BLAS and LAPACK math libraries
• Detecting the OpenMP parallel environment
• Detecting the MPI parallel environment
• Detecting the Eigen library
• Detecting the Boost libraries
• Detecting external libraries: I. Using pkg-config
• Detecting external libraries: II. Writing a find-module