Hello, We have several internal modules we have developed that are used mostly to read different types of data files. Most of the time the different data file formats come with some sort of DLL or SO files that gives a standard interface to read the files. Our design pattern is to create a python library that uses ctypes to interface with the shared library.
To be clear we are not building the shared libraries these are usually provided by another group or distributed by a third party. So the issue is I want to bundle these share libraries with the module into a wheel or sdist package to server off our local PyPiServer. I have combed though the documentation on the setup.py and setuptools and I cannot figure out a simple way to do this. Currently we are just adding them as datafiles but this means that the wheels are not named with a particular platform and thus we need to bundle all the different possible shared libraries with it. Additionally using the data files method always puts the share library in the same directory as the Python source while this works I wasn't certain if there is a more appropriate place for the libraries in the Python installation. So in summary: 1. How do I create a setup.py to bundle the appropriate share library into a wheel for a given platform and name the wheel properly. 2. Where is the most appropriate spot to stick these shared libraries? Most of our work is done in Windows but we have some modules that we use on Linux as well. We have both 32 and 64 bit environments. We are currently using Python 3.6. Thanks Chris -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
