scikit-build 0.17.4

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Bug fixes

• Make sure include dir is found even if the lib is not present in #974.

Bug fixes

• Keep get_python_library return type string if python lib non-existing for now in #959.

• Avoid ‘not found’ warning if libs are not found by FindPythonExtensions in #960.

• FindNumPy should not call FindPythonLibs in #958.

Bug fixes

• RPM spec fix by @LecrisUT in #937.

• Validate value before returning library path by @dlech in #942.

• Only add Python_LIBRARY on Windows MSVC in #943 and #944.

• Slightly nicer traceback for failed compiler in #947.

Testing

• Hide a few warnings that are expected in #948.

Bug fixes

• Older (<3.24) CMake breaks when lib specified in #932.

• An error output was missing formatting in #931.

• Make empty CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET a warning (bug in conda-forge’s clang activation fixed upstream) in #934.

• Remove unused variable warnings by in #930.

Testing

• Add Fedora packaging with packit automation by @LecrisUT in #928.

• Fix codecov ci by @LecrisUT in #929.

• Update some coverage settings in #933.

Bug fixes

• Match setuptools behavior for include_package_data default. by @vyasr in #873.

• Misc. fixes for F2PY and PythonExtensions modules by @benbovy in #495.

• Provide more useful error if user provides CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX by @vyasr in #872.

• Stop assuming that .pyx files are in the same directory as CMakeLists.txt by @vyasr in #871.

• Allow build type overriding in #902.

• Detect PyPy library correctly on Windows by user:gershnik in #904.

• Include library for FindPython for better Windows cross-compiles in #913. Thanks to user:maxbachmann for testing.

• Fix logic for default generator when cross-compiling for ARM on Windows in #917 by @dlech.

• Use f2py’s get_include if present in #877.

• Fix support for cross-compilation exception using targetLinkLibrariesWithDynamicLookup by @erykoff in #901.

• Treat empty MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET as if it was unset in #918.

Testing

• Add hello fortran sample package + tests by @benbovy in #493.

• Add sdist check & fix in #906.

• Fix some setuptools types in #888.

• Add PyPy Win & macOS to the CI in #907.

• Add tests for Python 3.12 Linux alphas in #922.

Miscellaneous

• Drop Python 3.6 in #862.

• Move building backend to hatchling in #870.

• Avoid mutating function input parameters in #899.

• Use _compat/typing name in #869.

Publications

Please use the first citation when referencing scikit-build in scientific publications.

• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Matt McCormick, Omar Padron, Max Smolens, Michael Grauer, & Michael Sarahan. (2018, July 13). jcfr/scipy_2018_scikit-build_talk: SciPy 2018 Talk | scikit-build: A Build System Generator for CPython C/C++/Fortran/Cython Extensions. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2565368

• Schreiner, Henry, Rickerby, Joe, Grosse-Kunstleve, Ralf, Jakob, Wenzel, Darbois, Matthieu, Gokaslan, Aaron, Fillion-Robin, Jean-Christophe, & McCormick, Matt. (2022, August 1). Building Binary Extensions with pybind11, scikit-build, and cibuildwheel. https://doi.org/10.25080/majora-212e5952-033

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.

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.

• 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).

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

• Discussions: https://github.com/orgs/scikit-build/discussions

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