Setuptools zig build

A setuptools extension, for building cpython extensions with zig build, enabling simple source-only pip distributions that compile at install time. This is my take on deinventing the wheel

check out zig-zon for a full example.

Example

Your project needs to have:

• setup.py to configure this setuptools extension to run during python's wheel build
• build.zig to configure the build of the shared library
• build.zig.zon optionally - to specify zig dependencies

from setuptools import Extension
from setuptools import setup
setup(
 name='zig-zon',
 packages=[],
 zig_build={
 # stores zig's depdendency pacakges in python's sdist. This requires a call to
 # CPython.addSdistList(b); in `build.zig`
 # If set to False, potential dependencies will be downloaded by zig instead.
 "sdist": True,
 # tries to import 'ziglang' to get a zig compiler when building wheel
 "use_ziglang_python_package": True,
 # passes -Doptimize= to zig build
 "optimize": "ReleaseSmall",
 # passes -Dversion=<pip package version> to zig build
 "pass_version_option": True,
 # extra arguments to zig build. In this case we pass the `install` and `test` steps
 'extra_args': [
 "install", "test",
 ],
 },
 # Names of the libraries your `build.zig` will produce, and this module will install
 ext_modules=[Extension('zig_zon', [])],
)

References

@ruamel and setuptools-zig