Equivalent for distutils.ccompiler.new_compiler needed

[rjungbeck]

setuptools version

Any version

Python version

Python 312

OS

Windows, Linux

Additional environment information

No response

Description

I use distutils ccompiler.new_compiler() to compile and link .c files (created via cython (with different, modue specific flags), obj files , .rc files, .res files and libraries in dynamic libraries or executables. I also do some (platform) specific changes to the compiler returned (like additional include or library paths, or compiler or linker flags).

By deprecating distutils you are removing this functionality (which does a pretty good job in abstracting different installastion scenarios (C compiler and SDK versions, installation locations, OS, Python versions).

NB: I create some modules automatically (with jinja2) and I want to do my own dependency management

How to Reproduce

Try to do it withot new_compiler()

Other detail

[jaraco]

This might be a duplicate of #2806

[rjungbeck]

I contrast to #2806 I need to access new_compiler from another script (ie not in the setup.py context).

I do not build a classic extension (.pyd) I build a complete exceutable on multiple platforms and combine this with compiling JavaScript/JSX with Vite and gzip, extracting text, that needs to be translated, building translation files, building and code signing an InnoSetup based compiler and scp to an external server,

[eli-schwartz]

I do not build a classic extension (.pyd) I build a complete exceutable on multiple platforms and combine this with compiling JavaScript/JSX with Vite and gzip, extracting text, that needs to be translated, building translation files, building and code signing an InnoSetup based compiler and scp to an external server,

All this sounds like you want a real build system instead of setuptools...

[rjungbeck]

I already have that build system (for my software) and just want to continue to use distutils/setuptools in it to compile & link the Cython code.
NB: I originally did the compilation and link step with my own code, but that is (especially with different Python versions, OS SDK platforms, compiler versions) quite complicated.