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Welcome to scikit-build

scikit-build is an improved build system generator for CPython C/C++/Fortran/Cython extensions. It provides better support for additional compilers, build systems, cross compilation, and locating dependencies and their associated build requirements.

The scikit-build package is fundamentally just glue between the setuptools Python module and CMake.

To get started, see :ref:`this example <basic_usage_example>`. For more examples, see scikit-build-sample-projects.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: User guide

   installation
   usage
   generators
   cmake-modules
   contributing
   hacking
   authors
   history
   changes

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: For maintainers

   make_a_release
   notes

Indices and tables

• :ref:`genindex`
• :ref:`modindex`
• :ref:`search`

Resources

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: http://scikit-build.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Source code: https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build
• Discussions: https://github.com/orgs/scikit-build/discussions