To be able to distribute a prebuilt distribution, distutils provides the build command. This commands compiles the package in the following four steps:
- build_py: This builds pure Python modules by byte-compiling them and copying them into the build folder.
- build_clib: This builds C libraries, when the package contains any, using Python compiler and creating a static library in the build folder.
- build_ext: This builds C extensions and puts the result in the build folder like build_clib.
- build_scripts: This builds the modules that are marked as scripts. It also changes the interpreter path when the first line was set (using !# prefix) and fixes the file mode so that it is executable.
Each of these steps is a command that ...
