Hi, On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 6:15 PM Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote: > > On 2019-01-22 13:04, Robert T. McGibbon wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately as you say, it only applies to Linux. > > So how do projects in practice deal with this in a cross-platform way? > Does every package need to reinvent the "wheel"?
Delocate [1] deals with the same problem on macOS - see my Multibuild frameworks [2] for some shared tooling between the two. It's fairly widely used (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, etc). I think the same general approach would be possible with Windows - see Nathaniel Smith's library at [3] - but I don't think anyone has done the work to package that into a wheel-building tool. Most people are building Windows wheels with static linking, I believe. Nathaniel Smith proposed a specification for packaging binary libraries as wheels [4], but I think he isn't working on that now, and it hasn't progressed. Nathaniel - is that right? Cheers, Matthew [1] https://github.com/matthew-brett/delocate [2] https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild [3] https://github.com/njsmith/machomachomangler [4] https://github.com/njsmith/wheel-builders/blob/pynativelib-proposal/pynativelib-proposal.rst -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/53MDA4EEEQHE3EXWTIMP6FLAV2R5PFUV/
