Hacking

Where the build backend lives

Changed in version 1.0: The classic build backend was removed; a few internal modules survive as deprecated shims.

The build backend is provided by the setuptools plugin of scikit-build-core; skbuild is a thin wrapper around it that re-exports setup() and ships the scikit-build CMake modules. If you want to hack on how projects are configured and built, look at the scikit-build-core repository.

The public Python API is skbuild.setup and skbuild.exceptions.SKBuildError. Anything else is deprecated: skbuild.cmaker, skbuild.constants, skbuild.utils and skbuild.setuptools_wrap are compatibility shims that warn on import and keep only the handful of helpers downstream setup.py files use (see below).

Internal API

skbuild

• skbuild package
  • setup()
  • Submodules
  • skbuild.exceptions module
    • SKBuildError
  • Deprecated shims
    • skbuild.cmaker module
      • get_cmake_version()
    • skbuild.constants module
      • CMAKE_INSTALL_DIR()
      • skbuild_plat_name()
    • skbuild.setuptools_wrap module
    • skbuild.utils module

Internal CMake Modules

• targetLinkLibrariesWithDynamicLookup