Link spaCy as a static library to be called from C++

[schoedl]

Hello,

I just started looking at spaCy. It seems to be mostly written in Cython, with the modules being binary code. Did anyone manage to use spaCy from C/C++ directly, without a Python interpreter? A single binary would make deployment a whole lot easier.

Thanks for any advice,

Arno

[adrianeboyd]

It's not exactly what you're asking, but if you'd like to have a single binary, have you looked at building a pex (https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex)? The github repo has a Makefile that builds a spacy pex: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/master/Makefile. You probably want to adjust the settings, e.g., if you want to include additional dependencies like spacy-transformers, which isn't included by default.