Re: Depending on external library

It's necessary to bundle the external library with the wheel.

On linux, this is what the manylinux tag is all about (see PEP 513 & 571)
and the auditwheel tool (https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel) will bundle
the library into the wheel.

On OS X and Windows, I'm less familiar with the toolchain but the same
principle applies.

-Robert


On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:41 AM Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Python project that depends on an external C library (which is
> unrelated to Python and NOT part of the OS).
>
> For an sdist, this is easy: my setup.py assumes that the library is
> pre-installed somewhere on the system where setuptools can find it.
>
> However, is there a standard solution for packaging such a project as
> wheel? Ideally, the project should "just work" when doing pip install on
> it, which means that the external library should somehow be bundled in
> the wheel.
>
> I know that for example numpy does that, but it also has a very
> complicated build system (containing a fork of distutils!).
>
> Does anybody know any pointers for this? Or if you think that this is a
> minefield which is not really supported, feel free to say so.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jeroen.
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