Change Cython's naming rules for .so files

Question

I\'m using Cython to generate a shared object out of Python module. The compilation output is written to build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5//.cpyt

Answer 1

the solution is very simple, just change one line in build_ext.py at

    def get_ext_filename(self, ext_name):

        from distutils.sysconfig import get_config_var
        ext_path = ext_name.split('.')
        ext_suffix = get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX') 
        return os.path.join(*ext_path) + ext_suffix

change ext_suffix = get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX') to ext_suffix = ".so" or to ".pyd" on Windows

that's it, you don't have to worry about the output name ever again