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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+'''
+setup.py - Python distutils setup file for BreezySLAM package.
+
+Copyright (C) 2014 Simon D. Levy
+
+This code is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 
+published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the 
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,     
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 
+along with this code.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+'''
+
+# Support streaming SIMD extensions
+
+from platform import machine
+
+OPT_FLAGS  = []
+SIMD_FLAGS = []
+
+arch = machine()
+
+if  arch == 'i686':
+    SIMD_FLAGS = ['-msse3']
+
+elif arch == 'armv7l':
+    OPT_FLAGS = ['-O3']
+    SIMD_FLAGS = ['-mfpu=neon']
+
+else:
+    arch = 'sisd'
+
+SOURCES = [
+    'pybreezyslam.c', 
+    'pyextension_utils.c', 
+    '../c/coreslam.c', 
+    '../c/coreslam_' + arch + '.c',
+    '../c/random.c',
+    '../c/ziggurat.c']
+
+from distutils.core import setup, Extension
+
+module = Extension('pybreezyslam', 
+    sources = SOURCES, 
+    extra_compile_args = SIMD_FLAGS + OPT_FLAGS
+    )
+
+
+setup (name = 'BreezySLAM',
+    version = '0.1',
+    description = 'Simple, efficient SLAM in Python',
+    packages = ['breezyslam'],
+    ext_modules = [module],
+    author='Simon D. Levy and Suraj Bajracharya',
+    author_email='levys@wlu.edu',
+    url='http://home.wlu.edu/~levys/software/breezyslam',
+    license='LGPL',
+    platforms='Linux; Windows; OS X',
+    long_description = 'Provides core classes Position, Map, Laser, Scan, and algorithm CoreSLAM'
+    )