The goal of this repository is to test cythonizing a package and/or its submodules, to make it harder to reverse engineer the codebase and eventually make it run faster. Indeed, after compiling it with cython, the generated archive no-longer contains python code, and requires a tedious deassembly step that will make it marginally harder to figure out what it is doing.
The requirements was to setup a build process that does not need to change the python codebase.
See PROCESS.md for details about how I came to the final version of the setup.py
Greatly inspired by this article from Jan Buchar
It is recommended to test this in a virtual environment.
We will be using anaconda to manage the virtual env (simply called cython).
Create the environment (only once):
conda create -n cython python=3.5
Activate it (everytime you want to test this repo):
activate cython
Install cython in environment (only once):
pip install cython
For cythonizing the entire package and subpackages:
python setup_all.py bdist_wheel
pip install dist/mypkg-0.1.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
python test/test.py