Local setup

Python wheel builds are driven by scikit-build which basically is a setuptools-wrapper for CMake-based projects.

The entry point is setup.py in the root directory. It uses the wheel CMake preset (or wheel-win on Windows).

You can locally develop and test with the following setup:

# Create a virtual environment inside your source directory
python3 -m venv .venv
# Activate the environment
source .venv/bin/activate
# Install (build) the local Python project
pip install -v .[test]
...
Successfully installed ogs-6.4.2.dev1207

The pip install-step starts a new CMake-based ogs build in _skbuild-subdirectory (inside the source code) using the wheel-preset. When the CMake build is done it installs the wheel into the activated virtual environment and you can interact with it, e.g.:

# Run python tests
pytest
============================================== test session starts ===============================================
platform darwin -- Python 3.10.6, pytest-7.1.3, pluggy-1.0.0
rootdir: ~/code/ogs/ogs, configfile: pyproject.toml, testpaths: Tests
collected 2 items

Tests/Python/test_cli.py .                                                                                 [ 50%]
Tests/Python/test_simlator.py .                                                                            [100%]

=============================================== 2 passed in 0.55s ================================================

# Start the python interpreter
python3
>>> import ogs.simulator as sim
>>> sim.initialize(["", "--help"])

If you make modifications you need to run pip install .[test] again (or for temporary modifications you can directly edit inside the virtual environment, e.g. in .venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ogs).

The contents of _skbuild/[platform-specific]/cmake-install will make up the wheel.

CI

For generating the various wheels for different Python versions and platforms cibuildwheel is used.

You can test it locally with, e.g. only building for Python 3.10:

CIBW_BUILD="cp310*" pipx run cibuildwheel

Please note that on Linux cibuildwheel runs the builds inside manylinux Docker containers. On other platforms the build happens with native tools. See the cibuildwheel docs for more information.

Wheels are generated in the wheelhouse/-folder.

cibuildwheel is configured in pyproject.toml:

[tool.cibuildwheel]
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