Is it possible to ask the

pex_binary

target to build its own wheels when only sdists are available for certain dependencies? I’m passing a specific

platforms

argument to the target and it’s incompatible with a few dependencies that are only available as an sdist and not as a wheel - if possible I’d like to avoid building my own wheels and placing them on our internal PyPI server.

So, are these sdists cross-platform? I.E. if you build them, are the wheels

py2-none-any

or

py3-none-any

or

py2.py3-none-any

?

I believe they are, the two OSS sdist only dependencies are asciitree and shortid

But the other way round - no can do, No build for Mac on Linux

Environments

would be perfect for this - all of this works when we build our PEX out on CI/CD. As a stop-gap for my M1 Mac (Intel Mac works just fine) I tried specifying the

platform

on the

pex_binary

target - but that is what introduced the sdist only issue

But the real answer is do not work on a Mac if your code is meant to run on Linux!

Yeah - I agree.

I'll refrain from ranting. Despite hating this. I work hard to make things work on Mac as does the rest of the Pantsbuild team. We're enablers.

You’re always the one who comes up with some pretty amazing solutions to the problems that my M1 Mac causes. Thank you John!

Ok, that took a bit longer than I'd hoped. If you want to try this yolo support for "cross-building" sdists you need the following

pants.toml

snippet:

[pex-cli]
version = "v2.1.125"
known_versions = [
    "v2.1.125|macos_arm64|1da1ef933429f15b218c98c6b960f30adfd0221fc5284c1d8facac09923692f8|4080732",
    "v2.1.125|macos_x86_64|1da1ef933429f15b218c98c6b960f30adfd0221fc5284c1d8facac09923692f8|4080732",
    "v2.1.125|linux_x86_64|1da1ef933429f15b218c98c6b960f30adfd0221fc5284c1d8facac09923692f8|4080732",
    "v2.1.125|linux_arm64|1da1ef933429f15b218c98c6b960f30adfd0221fc5284c1d8facac09923692f8|4080732"
]