hatch-nativelib

Hatchling plugin with utilities for native libraries.

pkgconf dependency generation

By adding [[tool.hatch.build.hooks.nativelib.pcfile]] to your hatchling project's pyproject.toml, this plugin will do a couple of things:

• Automatically generate the .pc file from the pyproject.toml config section
• Register the .pc file so that pkgconf-pypi will find it and things such as meson can use it for dependency resolution
  • Also sets PKG_CONFIG_PATH so that other hatchling plugins can resolve it
• Generates a python module that uses ctypes to load the library when imported. The library can be found via pkgconf, in the variable pkgconf_pypi_initpy

See config for pyproject.toml configuration.