scikit-build 0.16.0

Improved build system generator for Python C/C++/Fortran/Cython extensions

Improved build system generator for CPython C/C++/Fortran/Cython extensions.

Better support is available for additional compilers, build systems, cross compilation, and locating dependencies and determining their build requirements.

The scikit-build package is fundamentally just glue between the setuptools Python module and CMake.

To get started, see this example and scikit-build-sample-projects.

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Known Issues

These issues are likely to be addressed in upcoming releases.

• Editable installs do not work with the latest versions of Setuptools (and had issues with older versions, too).

• Configuration scikit-build cares about _must_ be specified in setup() currently.

• The cache directory (_skbuild) may need to be deleted between builds in some cases (like rebuilding with a different Python interpreter).

We are also working on improving scikit-build, so there are some upcoming changes and deprecations:

• All deprecated setuptools/distutils features are also deprecated in scikit-build, like the test command, easy_install, etc.

• Python 3.6 support is deprecated, as setuptools, pytest, and everything else we use has dropped it already.

• Older versions of CMake (<3.15) are not recommended; a future version will remove support for older CMake’s (along with providing a better mechanism for ensuring a proper CMake is available).

• Our primary branch will change to main

If you need any of these features, please open or find an issue explaining what and why you need something.

Miscellaneous

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: http://scikit-build.readthedocs.org

• Source code: https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build

• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scikit-build

Support for this work was provided by NSF cooperative agreement OAC-2209877.

History

PyCMake was created at SciPy 2014 in response to general difficulties building C++ and Fortran based Python extensions across platforms. It was renamed to “scikit-build” in 2016.