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.. _building:
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Building C and C++ Extensions
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A C extension for CPython is a shared library (for example, a ``.so`` file on
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Linux, ``.pyd`` on Windows), which exports an *initialization function*.
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See :ref:`extension-modules` for details.
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.. highlight:: c
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.. _install-index:
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.. _setuptools-index:
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Building C and C++ Extensions with setuptools
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=============================================
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Building, packaging and distributing extension modules is best done with
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third-party tools, and is out of scope of this document.
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One suitable tool is Setuptools, whose documentation can be found at
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https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/setuptools.html.
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The :mod:`distutils` module, which was included in the standard library
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until Python 3.12, is now maintained as part of Setuptools.
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