DOC: add instructions for cibuildwheel to support Windows wheels #794
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I had trouble with building wheels ("Python executable could not be found") and fixed it by specifying the `vsenv` option for cibuildwheel. A similar flag is used by numpy as well, so this is probably indeed needed.
moi15moi
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rgommers
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Thanks @tobiasdiez. This is helpful, I've seen other people need this. I suggest one tweak.
| [tool.meson-python.args] | ||
| setup = ['--vsenv'] | ||
| # In case you want to build Windows wheels using cibuildwheel |
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It now looks like a single example, however the cibuildwheel content is only needed if the setup = ['--vsenv'] above isn't desirable to set by default. So I suggest making the next two lines a separate code block, and change this code comment to a sentence: "And in case you don't want to set --vsenv as the default, but do want to build Windows wheels in CI using cibuildwheel:".
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I had trouble with building wheels ("Python executable could not be found") and fixed it by specifying the
vsenvoption for cibuildwheel. A similar flag is used by numpy as well, so this is probably indeed needed.