Suppose I have a native shared library (.dll or .so), built independently of any Python mechanism, and a Python module using ctypes to interface to the library. Is there a way that I can build those into a .whl package? If so, how? Assuming this is possible, I think I'd need the wheel package installed and to use python setup.py bdist_wheel but what would my setup.py need to look like? I'd like to do this so I can upload Wheels for various platforms into a private package index and be able to pip install the appropriate one for the platform I'm on. Continue reading...
