Use cibuildwheel or similar

[peekxc]

I would like to use pycddlib, but my platform (macOS) is not available on Pypi and installation-from-source appears to be nightmare (approximately half of the closes issues are installation related).

It would be great if:

1. More platforms were supported beyond windows for the wheels (e.g. using cibuildwheel)
2. GMP and any other OS dependencies were statically linked into a standalone wheels (like how pythran links openblas)

I realize (2) is a bit difficult to achieve, but w/o it pycddlib simply can't actually be used as a dependency for any project that itself wants to be installed as a standalone package.

On the other hand, (1) shouldn't be difficult to achieve and might help curb the number of issues related to installation.

[mcmtroffaes]

I'm not familiar with cibuildwheel. However, note that the pycddlib-standalone package comes with the cddlib source included (not gmp; it simply does not expose the gmp part of the library to keep things simple). It has no dependencies besides a working compiler. See

https://pypi.org/project/pycddlib-standalone/

This said, no Python package should depend on this; it's purely meant for using pycddlib on google colab (where one cannot easily install gmp etc.). But perhaps it still helps with your use case?

[peekxc]

I'm not familiar with cibuildwheel

FYI there is a GH action for it

This said, no Python package should depend on this; it's purely meant for using pycddlib on google colab (where one cannot easily install gmp etc.). But perhaps it still helps with your use case?

Ahh, well in fact my use case is I want to add pyddlib as a dependency to a package (I don't use colab or related), but I don't want to impose any installation overhead on my users / coworkers beyond "pip install ", so I guess the 'standalone' package isn't applicable to me.

[mcmtroffaes]

I understand. If there's a way to leverage vcpkg (which supports windows, linux, and macos for both dependencies, being gmp and cddlib) within cibuildwheel, it might be "easy" to add support, since vcpkg is already used to build the binary wheels on windows.

[dimpase]

you might like to have a look at https://github.com/child-lab-uj/mini-face-meson-test/blob/main/.github/workflows/ci.yml