[Quantlib-users] Build quantlib wheel using Docker

[Alix L. <ali...@gm...>]

Hello Luigi and QL community,

I am actually stuck in the process of building properly a wheel in
QuantLib-Python from docker. In short, I am starting from Luigi's
repository (https://github.com/lballabio/dockerfiles), then building the
images boost, base, default and python3. At this point, one can use
QuantLib-Python.

Then, I tried to run "python3 setup.py bdist_wheel" to generate a wheel.
And "repair" the wheel using auditwheel, I am facing this error:

auditwheel: error: cannot repair "QuantLib******.whl" to
"manylinux1_x86_64" ABI because of the presence of too-recent versioned
symbols. You'll need to compile the wheel on an older toolchain.

I have seen a discussion where Luigi mentioned to use manylinux for
building a wheel. Does it mean we cannot generate a wheel from an
Ubunbu distribution? If my understanding is correct, manylinux will provide
wheels for any linux distribution, and looks the best practice to
industrialise the release process. But what about if we don't care about
the Linux distrib, and just want to build a wheel for this Ubuntu version,
assuming users are required to use the same environment? The concern here
seems to link the external shared library "libQuantLib.so.0".

Many thanks to all,
Alix

Attaching the 2 earlier discussions that look related to this topic for
reference:
https://sourceforge.net/p/quantlib/mailman/message/36713117/
https://github.com/lballabio/QuantLib-SWIG/issues/103