What I want
Put all build output generated (build, dist, my_package.egg_info, etc) by python setup.py into a specific directory.
Project structure
awesome_pkg/
__init__.py
mod.py
my_fancy_app/
__init__.py
__main__.py
target/
requirements.txt
setup.py
__main__.py:
def main():
print("Hello virtual environment")
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
setup.py:
import setuptools
setuptools.setup(
name = "my_fancy_app",
version="0.0.1",
author="Me Myself",
author_email="[email protected]",
description="Some description",
long_description="Some long description",
packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
entry_points={
'console_scripts': [ 'hlpth = my_fancy_app.__main__:main' ]
},
classifiers=[
"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
"License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
"Operating System :: OS Independent",
],
python_requires='>=3.7'
)
__init__.py is an empty script
What I tried
I tried to simply run setup.py with a specific working directory:
cd target
python3.7 ../setup.py bdist_wheel
The problem
The problem is it does not really package anything:
$ python3.7 ../setup.py bdist_wheel
running bdist_wheel
running build
installing to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/wheel
running install
running install_egg_info
running egg_info
creating my_fancy_app.egg-info
writing my_fancy_app.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to my_fancy_app.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to my_fancy_app.egg-info/entry_points.txt
writing top-level names to my_fancy_app.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing manifest file 'my_fancy_app.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest file 'my_fancy_app.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'my_fancy_app.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
Copying my_fancy_app.egg-info to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/wheel/my_fancy_app-0.0.1-py3.7.egg-info
running install_scripts
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/wheel/my_fancy_app-0.0.1.dist-info/WHEEL
creating 'dist/my_fancy_app-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/wheel' to it
adding 'my_fancy_app-0.0.1.dist-info/METADATA'
adding 'my_fancy_app-0.0.1.dist-info/WHEEL'
adding 'my_fancy_app-0.0.1.dist-info/entry_points.txt'
adding 'my_fancy_app-0.0.1.dist-info/top_level.txt'
adding 'my_fancy_app-0.0.1.dist-info/RECORD'
removing build/bdist.linux-x86_64/wheel
But running it from the source root directory works perfectly fine python3.7 setup.py bdist_wheel and both of the packages are bundled into the wheel archive.
Is there a way to do such out of source build?
You will have to play around until you find the right combination of setuptools commands and options for your exact use case. For example I have had some success with the following combination for a bdist_wheel:
python3 setup.py egg_info --egg-base target build --build-base target/build bdist_wheel --dist-dir target/dist