* End support for Python 3.7, update cibuildwheel and publish actions
Removes Python 3.7 from the support matrix, since it does not support
PEP590 vectorcalls.
Bumps the `cibuildwheel` and `pypa-publish` actions to their latest
available versions respectively.
* Add nanobind to the Bazel dependencies, add a BUILD file
The build file builds nanobind as a static `cc_library`. Currently,
the git SHA points to HEAD, since some necessary features have not
been included in a release yet.
* Delete pybind11 BUILD file
* Switch bindings implementation to nanobind
Switches over the binding tool to `nanobind` from `pybind11`. Most
changes in the build setup itself were drop-in replacements of existing
code changed to nanobind names, no new concepts needed to be
implemented.
Sets the minimum required macOS to 10.14 for full C++17 support. Also,
to avoid ambiguities in Bazel, build for macOS 11 on Mac ARM64.
* Use Bazel select for linker options
Guards against unknown linker option errors by selecting required
linker options for nanobind only on macOS, where they are relevant.
Other changes:
* Bump cibuildwheel action to v2.12.0
* Bump Bazel for aarch64 linux wheels to 6.0.0
* Remove C++17 flag from build files since it is present in setup.py `bazel build` command
* Bump nanobind commit to current HEAD (TBD: Bump to next stable release)
* Unbreak Windows builds of nanobind-based bindings
Guards compiler options behind a new `select` macro choosing between
MSVC and not MSVC.
Other changes:
* Inject the proper C++17 standard cxxopt in the `setup.py` build
command.
* Bump nanobind to current HEAD.
* Make `macos` a benchmark-wide condition, with public visibility to
allow its use in the nanobind BUILD file.
* Fall back to `nb::implicitly_convertible` for Counter construction
Since `benchmark::Counter` only has a constructor for `double`,
the nanobind `nb::init_implicit` template cannot be used. Therefore,
to support implicit construction from ints, we fall back to the
`nb::implicitly_convertible` template instead.
This commit enables arm64 Linux wheel builds for Python.
It also changes the build procedure on Linux using
cibuildwheel in GitHub Actions. Instead of the more granular, verbose
approach that was used until now, we opt for the GitHub Action released
by cibuildwheel directly.
We also change the Bazel install procedure in the manylinux Docker
container image. Previously, Bazel was installed from an added RHEL repo, since that is
the recommended official way of installing Bazel on CentOS platforms.
However, the last successful build available for manylinux2014 has been Bazel 4,
which is showing its age with the release of Bazel 6 coming up as of this commit.
After this change, prebuilt Bazel binaries are downloaded using
wget directly from the Bazel GitHub release page. Since Bazel is built
for both x86 and arm64 on Linux, we immediately gain wheel build
support for these architectures. However, since the architecture
of the manylinux image is aarch64 instead of arm64,
a shell script was added that normalizes aarch64 to arm64,
and installs the correct arm64 Bazel binary if necessary.
Nicholas Junge