[Distutils] Install psutil without gcc?

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Thomas Güttler
<guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> It would be great, if I could install psutil without the need for a gcc on
> linux.
>
> The maintainer (Giampaolo Rodola) is interested, but the roadmap is not
> clear yet.
>
> He said:
>
>> It's something which needs to be investigated. A quick Google searched
>> brought me here:
>> https://github.com/joerick/cibuildwheel
>> ...so it appears it's definitively possible.
>
> Is this the current state of the art, or is there a better way?

I haven't looked at CIBuildwheel in much detail, but my impression is
that it will work well for simple wheels, but I didn't investigate far
to see how well it would cope for more substantial builds.

My own project for the same thing is somewhat less streamlined, but is
relatively flexible:

https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild

I did a lot of wheel-build bootstrapping. so there are a lot of
projects that use it - numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas, Cython, h5py,
Pillow, scikit-learn, scikit-image, astropy ...  Of course that
density is largely historical, but it does at least mean that the
project is battle tested and relatively well maintained.   I'm happy
to help you get set up.

You might also look at Scikit-Build -
https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build - I believe that project
is particularly good if you are using CMake.

By the way, you might prefer the wheel-builders list for this
discussion - https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/wheel-builders

Cheers,

Matthew