[Distutils] Install psutil without gcc?

[Wes Turner]

Is there a reason that psutil cannot be built as a manylinux1 wheel?

- manylinux1_x86_64
- manylinux1_i686

On Friday, September 8, 2017, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Thomas Güttler
> <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de <javascript:;>> 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
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