How should one go about handling building a Python...
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bitter-ability-32190
11/09/2021, 3:05 PMHow should one go about handling building a Python C Extension Module? Is there a mechanism in-ecosystem to do this, or is it more of a "do-it-outside-of-pants" thing?
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curved-television-6568
11/09/2021, 3:09 PMI’m no expert here, but I think if you provide your own setup.py, pants can use that, and in that way build native extensions.. It is mentioned here: https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.8/docs/python-distributions#setuppy
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bitter-ability-32190
11/09/2021, 3:17 PMworth a shot
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happy-kitchen-89482
11/09/2021, 5:21 PMYep, Pants 2.8 will build your native extensions from a custom setup.py
happy-kitchen-89482
11/09/2021, 5:22 PMhappy-kitchen-89482
11/09/2021, 5:22 PMThat would be the standard way at present
happy-kitchen-89482
11/09/2021, 5:23 PMIn the future I could imagine supporting C/C++ and/or Rust as a first-class language in Pants and shimming a linked binary into a native extension, but usually native extensions are small and probably don't require that much overkill