feat: add pyproject.toml and cibuildwheel support to pythonbindings

.gitignore

@@ -29,3 +29,5 @@ CMakeLists.txt.user
 *.code-workspace
 #used by PyCharm IDE
 .idea/
+wheelhouse/
+__pycache__/

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -111,13 +111,26 @@ endif()
 
 # ==============================================================================#
 
-# install Python modules to correct platform-dependent directory (if installing to system prefix)
-if( "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}" STREQUAL "/usr" OR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}" STREQUAL "/usr/local" )
-  set( install_path ${Python_SITEARCH} )
+if(SKBUILD)
+  install( FILES ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deviceaccess.pyi 
+           DESTINATION "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/deviceaccess"
+           RENAME __init__.pyi )
+  install( FILES ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deviceaccess.pyi 
+           DESTINATION "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/deviceaccess" )
+  install( FILES ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/mtca4u.py 
+           DESTINATION "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/mtca4u"
+           RENAME __init__.py )
+  install( TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME} 
+           LIBRARY DESTINATION "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/deviceaccess" )
 else()
-  set( install_path "lib/python${Python_VERSION_MAJOR}.${Python_VERSION_MINOR}/site-packages" )
+  # install Python modules to correct platform-dependent directory (if installing to system prefix)
+  if( "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}" STREQUAL "/usr" OR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}" STREQUAL "/usr/local" )
+    set( install_path ${Python_SITEARCH} )
+  else()
+    set( install_path "lib/python${Python_VERSION_MAJOR}.${Python_VERSION_MINOR}/site-packages" )
+  endif()
+
+  install( FILES ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deviceaccess.pyi DESTINATION ${install_path} )
+  install( FILES ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/mtca4u.py DESTINATION ${install_path} )
+  install( TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME} LIBRARY DESTINATION ${install_path} )
 endif()
-
-install( FILES ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deviceaccess.pyi DESTINATION ${install_path} )
-install( FILES ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/mtca4u.py DESTINATION ${install_path} )
-install( TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME} LIBRARY DESTINATION ${install_path} )

README.md

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# Bindings for ChimeraTK DeviceAcess Library
+# Bindings for ChimeraTK DeviceAccess Library
 Find API documentation [here](https://chimeratk.github.io/ChimeraTK-DeviceAccess-PythonBindings/head/html)

pre_build_manylinux.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# For manylinux_2_28
+
+# Dependencies versions
+export CPPEXT_VERSION="01.07.00"
+export EXPRTK_VERSION="01.04.02"
+export NLOHMANN_JSON_VERSION="v3.12.0"
+export DEVICEACCESS_VERSION="03.24.01"
+
+export PROJECT_PWD=`pwd`
+export PROCS=`nproc`
+
+# Creating local build directories
+rm -rf ${BUILD_DIR}
+mkdir ${BUILD_DIR}
+cd ${BUILD_DIR}
+
+# Helper function to build cmake-based projects
+build_cmake () {
+    cd $1
+    mkdir builddir
+    cd builddir/
+    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DJSON_BuildTests=OFF -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF ..
+    make install -j${PROCS}
+    cd ${BUILD_DIR}
+}
+
+# Install required system packages
+dnf install -y epel-release
+dnf -y install gcc-c++ gcc-toolset-14-libatomic-devel libxml++-devel boost1.78-devel
+
+g++ --version
+
+# Install cppext
+git clone --recursive --depth 1 --branch ${CPPEXT_VERSION} https://github.com/ChimeraTK/cppext.git
+build_cmake cppext
+
+# Install exprtk
+git clone --recursive --depth 1 --branch ${EXPRTK_VERSION} https://github.com/ChimeraTK/exprtk-interface.git
+build_cmake exprtk-interface
+
+# Install nlohmann-json
+git clone --recursive --depth 1 --branch ${NLOHMANN_JSON_VERSION} https://github.com/nlohmann/json.git
+build_cmake json
+
+# Install ChimeraTK-DeviceAccess
+git clone --recursive --depth 1 --branch ${DEVICEACCESS_VERSION} https://github.com/ChimeraTK/DeviceAccess.git
+build_cmake DeviceAccess
+
+cd ${PROJECT_PWD}
+

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,2 +1,80 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+  "scikit-build-core",
+  "numpy",
+  "pybind11>=3.0",
+  "mypy>=1.0"
+]
+
+build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
+
+[project]
+name = "deviceaccess"
+version = "4.0.1"
+dependencies = [
+  "numpy",
+  "mypy>=1.0"
+]
+description = "Python bindings for the ChimeraTK's deviceaccess library"
+long_description = "The package provides binding for the ChimeraTK's deviceaccess library"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
+readme = "README.md"
+license = {file = "LICENSE"}
+
+classifiers = [
+"Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
+"Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+"License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPLv3)",
+"Intended Audience :: Developers",
+"Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+"Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
+"Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
+"Topic :: Scientific/Engineering"
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/ChimeraTK/DeviceAccess-PythonBindings"
+Documentation = "https://chimeratk.github.io/ChimeraTK-DeviceAccess-PythonBindings/head/html/"
+Repository = "https://github.com/ChimeraTK/DeviceAccess-PythonBindings"
+
+[tool.scikit-build]
+# Protect the configuration against future changes in scikit-build-core
+minimum-version = "0.4"
+
+# Setuptools-style build caching in a local directory
+build-dir = "build/{wheel_tag}"
+wheel.packages = ["src/mtca4u", "src/deviceaccess"]
+
+[tool.cibuildwheel]
+before-all = "bash pre_build_manylinux.sh"
+skip = "cp314t-* *-win32 *_i686 *-musllinux_*"
+manylinux-x86_64-image = "quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_x86_64:2025.10.10-1"
+manylinux-aarch64-image = "quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_aarch64:2025.10.10-1"
+
+# Necessary to see build output from the actual compilation
+build-verbosity = 1
+
+## Run unittest to ensure that the package was correctly built
+## tests disabled due to corruption on interpreter exit
+## Note: tests are disabled at the moment since to make it work, the 
+## resource path of them should be made cwd -independent
+# test-command = "python -m unittest discover -v {package}/tests"
+test-skip = "*"
+
+[tool.cibuildwheel.linux.environment]
+
+# Add the build directory to the environment variables
+BUILD_DIR="${HOME}/build"
+PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${BUILD_DIR}/local/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}"
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${BUILD_DIR}/local/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+PATH="${BUILD_DIR}/local/bin/:${PATH}"
+
 [tool.autopep8]
-max_line_length = 120
+max_line_length = 120
+

src/deviceaccess/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from . import deviceaccess
+
+try:
+    __all__ = tuple(deviceaccess.__all__)
+except Exception:
+    __all__ = tuple(n for n in dir(deviceaccess) if not n.startswith("_"))
+
+# Populate the namespace eagerly
+globals().update({name: getattr(deviceaccess, name) for name in __all__})