diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a1ee77226..1818f3234 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ object_database/web/content/dist
 # Emacs
 \#*
 \.#*
+**/*~
 
 # leading slash means only match at repo-root level
 /.python-version
@@ -25,6 +26,13 @@ object_database/web/content/dist
 /.env*
 /.test_venv
 /dist/
+/wheels/
 /pip-wheel-metadata/
 /testcert.cert
 /testcert.key
+
+.idea/
+
+# build_scripts sets up temporary symlinks so don't accidentally check them in
+Pipfile
+Pipfile.lock
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build_scripts/README.md b/build_scripts/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..10a668c68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_scripts/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Wheel builds for typed_python
+
+Using [Manylinux](https://github.com/pypa/manylinux) we can make typed_python
+more portable.
+
+## Building wheels
+
+1. Prerequisites: docker
+2. Run `run_build.sh <python_version>` (37 38 39 310 are supported)
+
+This process should create a `./wheels` directory under the typed_python repo
+root with wheels for python 3.7-3.10 built for linux x86_64 that are uploadable
+to pypi
+
+## Release to pypi
+
+1. pip install twine
+2. twine upload wheels/*.whl
+
+## Notes
+
+Here we're using the CentOS 7 based manylinux2014 image. 
+We cannot move to the newer `manylinux_x_y` image ([PEP 600](https://peps.python.org/pep-0600/)) 
+until type_python drops support for python 3.7
+
+`typed_python` code does not build on arm64 though manylinux does support it.
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diff --git a/build_scripts/create_manylinux_wheel.sh b/build_scripts/create_manylinux_wheel.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..a75b778f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_scripts/create_manylinux_wheel.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Run this inside a manylinux docker container
+
+# code dir
+pushd ${TYPED_PYTHON_DIR:-/opt/apriori/typed_python}
+
+FLAVOR="cp"  # cpython not pypy
+ORIG_PATH=$PATH
+VERSION=$1
+
+VALID_VERSIONS=("37 38 39 310")
+if [[ ! "${VALID_VERSIONS[*]}" =~ "$VERSION" ]]; then
+    echo "Valid versions are 37, 38, 39, 310"
+    exit 1
+fi
+    
+# Manylinux image has supported python installed like /opt/python/cp38-cp38
+PYNAME="${FLAVOR}${VERSION}"
+
+# 37 in maintenance so has special suffix
+if [[ ${VERSION} == 37 ]]; then SUFFIX="m"; else SUFFIX=""; fi
+
+# select the right python
+PYTHON=/opt/python/${PYNAME}-${PYNAME}${SUFFIX}/bin/python
+
+# `python -m build` respects build deps in pyproject.toml
+# `-w` option builds the wheel
+${PYTHON} -m build -w
+
+# make wheels that pypi recognizes
+for whl in dist/*${PYNAME}*.whl; do
+    auditwheel repair "$whl" -w wheels
+done
diff --git a/build_scripts/run_build.sh b/build_scripts/run_build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..4216614e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_scripts/run_build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -ex
+
+if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "Usage: ./run_build.sh <python_version>"
+    echo "Valid <python_verson>'s are 37 38 39 310"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+VERSION=$1
+
+REPO_ROOT=$(realpath $(dirname $(realpath $0))/..)
+ARCH=${2:-"x86_64"}
+MANYLINUX=${3:-"manylinux2014"}  # PEP 599
+BASE_IMAGE="quay.io/pypa/${MANYLINUX}_${ARCH}"
+
+# Unfortunately the code is specific to x86_64 arch
+#if [[ $ARCH = "aarch64" ]]; then
+#
+#  DOCKER_PLATFORM="--platform linux/arm64"
+#fi
+
+docker run --rm ${DOCKER_PLATFORM} \
+    --volume ${REPO_ROOT}:/opt/apriori/typed_python \
+    ${BASE_IMAGE} \
+    /opt/apriori/typed_python/build_scripts/create_manylinux_wheel.sh $VERSION