What you need for this book

For this book, I used my MacBook and an Ubuntu virtual machine (GDB is too old on Mac OS X for debugging). You will require the following on Mac OS X:

• Xcode
• Cython
• GCC/Clang
• Make
• Python
• Python con g
• Python distutils

On Ubuntu/Debian you can install everything via the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb cython

I will go over this in the introduction, but as long as you have a working C compiler and Python along with Python libraries and headers installed, you will have everything you need for Cython.