KitwareMedical / KitwareMedical/VTKPythonPackage
Building wheel suitable for extensions
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 36
- Forks
- 16
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Me and @berendkleinhaneveld were investigating if we could build extensions against this package. It seems to be a runtime-only package, which is great, but we need the development files, such as headers and the wrapPython executable.
It looks like overriding the option `-DVTK_INSTALL_NO_DEVELOPMENT:BOOL=ON` to `OFF` should do the trick. So we tried that, and more development files ended up in the wheel. However, _we are not seeing any header files!_
We've been investigating all day, but it's unclear to us what is causing this. Do you guys have any suggestions for where we should be looking?
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Research direction
Start by tracing the repository's setup script and the VTK_INSTALL_NO_DEVELOPMENT option to see how wheel contents are selected. Verify whether the generated wheel contains the development headers and wrapPython executable; done means those extension-build files are present and usable.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cmake, python
- Domain
- build-system, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100