How do I install packages for a given target platform?

[njlr]

My use-case is that I am developing across platforms (e.g. macOS development machine for Linux server). I want to create a folder (or .zip or .tar) of the dependencies on the target platform (e.g. Linux) for deployment. I do not want to run poetry install or pip install on the server since this slows start-up and can introduce flakiness.

One approach I came up with is to copy the pyproject.toml and poetry.lock into a Docker container, run poetry install and then copy the output files.

However, I was wondering if this is something Poetry can do natively, and ideally without the overhead of Docker?

[ScottShingler]

I'm in a similar boat (developing on Windows, targeting Linux). I also took the same approach of using a Docker container to create package distributions for Linux, which works but is not ideal. Would love to know if anyone has managed to use Poetry for cross-platform builds without needing a platform-specific build environment like Docker.