How to force a python wheel to be platform specific when building it?

Question

I am working on a python2 package in which the setup.py contains some custom install commands. These commands actually build some Rust code and output some

Answer 1

Neither the root_is_pure trick nor the empty ext_modules trick worked for me, but after MUCH searching myself, I finally found a working solution in 'pip setup.py bdist_wheel' no longer builds forced non-pure wheels

Basically, you override the 'has_ext_modules' function in the Distribution class, and set distclass to point to the overriding class. At that point, setup.py will believe you have a binary distribution, and will create a wheel with the specific version of python, the ABI, and the current architecture. As suggested by https://stackoverflow.com/users/5316090/py-j:

from setuptools import setup
from setuptools.dist import Distribution

DISTNAME = "packagename"
DESCRIPTION = ""
MAINTAINER = ""
MAINTAINER_EMAIL = ""
URL = ""
LICENSE = ""
DOWNLOAD_URL = ""
VERSION = '1.2'
PYTHON_VERSION = (2, 7)


# Tested with wheel v0.29.0
class BinaryDistribution(Distribution):
    """Distribution which always forces a binary package with platform name"""
    def has_ext_modules(foo):
        return True


setup(name=DISTNAME,
      description=DESCRIPTION,
      maintainer=MAINTAINER,
      maintainer_email=MAINTAINER_EMAIL,
      url=URL,
      license=LICENSE,
      download_url=DOWNLOAD_URL,
      version=VERSION,
      packages=["packagename"],

      # Include pre-compiled extension
      package_data={"packagename": ["_precompiled_extension.pyd"]},
      distclass=BinaryDistribution)