Including shared libraries in wheels

[Phil Thompson]

On 07/03/2023 10:53, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On 07/03/2023 10:20, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to build wheels for python-poppler-qt5, which uses SIP and
>> PyQt-builder. It's close to working, except that my wheels don't
>> contain the `libpoppler.so` and `libpoppler-qt5.so` files, which they
>> should in order to work on others' machines. (I'd like avoid
>> statically linking these into the binding's generated shared library
>> because it would force me to compile Poppler myself into a static
>> library on various OSes, while I can get it as a shared library from
>> Conda.)
>> 
>> What would be the easiest way to make these libs end up in the wheels?
> 
> See 'wheel-includes' in...
> 
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/sip/pyproject_toml.html#tool-sip-project-section

However you may have issues with the .so files being linked against a 
different Qt installation.

Phil