Support for using embedded manylinux static libraries (#1504)

.github/workflows/build-wheel.yml

@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
-  windows:
-    runs-on: windows-latest
+  build_wheel_windows:
     strategy:
       matrix:
+        os: [windows-latest]
         python-version: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
         architecture: [x86, x64]
-    name: Build [Windows ${{ matrix.architecture }}][Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}]
+    name: Build [${{ matrix.os }} ${{ matrix.architecture }}][Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: Setup Python
@@ -40,9 +41,29 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: cx-freeze-wheelhouse
           path: wheelhouse
+  build_wheel_unix:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest]
+    name: Build [${{ matrix.os }}] using cibuildwheel
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install cibuildwheel==2.5.0
+      - name: Build the wheel
+        run: python -m cibuildwheel
+      - name: Upload the artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: cx-freeze-wheelhouse
+          path: wheelhouse
   publish:
     needs: windows
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Publish package to PyPI
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2

pyproject.toml

@@ -49,3 +49,12 @@ reports.output-format = "colorized"
 minversion = "6.0"
 addopts = "-ra"
 testpaths = ["tests"]
+
+[tool.cibuildwheel]
+build-frontend = "build"
+build-verbosity = "1"
+
+[tool.cibuildwheel.linux]
+before-build = "(cd /opt/_internal && tar -xvf static-libs-for-embedding-only.tar.xz)"
+build = "cp3*-manylinux_x86_64"
+repair-wheel-command = "auditwheel repair -L /bases/lib -w {dest_dir} {wheel}"

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ patchelf>=0.12 ;sys_platform == 'linux'
 bump2version>=1.0.1
 pre-commit>=2.17.0
 pylint>=2.13.0
+cibuildwheel==2.5.0 ;sys_platform == 'linux'
 #doc
 sphinx==4.5.0
 sphinx-rtd-theme==1.0.0

setup.cfg

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ dev =
     bump2version>=1.0.1
     pre-commit>=2.17.0
     pylint>=2.13.0
+    cibuildwheel==2.5.0 ;sys_platform == 'linux'
 doc =
     sphinx==4.5.0
     sphinx-rtd-theme==1.0.0