feature: allow local runs on windows/macOS

README.md

@@ -59,8 +59,6 @@ Usage
 
 <sup>¹ [Requires emulation](https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq/#emulation), distributed separately. Other services may also support Linux ARM through emulation or third-party build hosts, but these are not tested in our CI.</sup><br>
 
-`cibuildwheel` is not intended to run on your development machine. Because it uses system Python from Python.org on macOS and Windows, it will try to install packages globally - not what you expect from a build tool! Instead, isolated CI services like those mentioned above are ideal. For Linux builds, it uses manylinux docker images, so those can be done locally for testing in a pinch.
-
 <!--intro-end-->
 
 Example setup

bin/run_tests.py

@@ -16,15 +16,13 @@
         unit_test_args += ["--run-docker"]
     subprocess.run(unit_test_args, check=True)
 
-    xdist_test_args = ["-n", "2"] if sys.platform.startswith("linux") else []
-
     # run the integration tests
     subprocess.run(
         [
             sys.executable,
             "-m",
             "pytest",
-            *xdist_test_args,
+            "--numprocesses=2",
             "-x",
             "--durations",
             "0",

bin/update_virtualenv.py

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import difflib
+import logging
+import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import NamedTuple
+
+import click
+import rich
+import tomli
+from packaging.version import InvalidVersion, Version
+from rich.logging import RichHandler
+from rich.syntax import Syntax
+
+from cibuildwheel.typing import Final
+
+log = logging.getLogger("cibw")
+
+# Looking up the dir instead of using utils.resources_dir
+# since we want to write to it.
+DIR: Final[Path] = Path(__file__).parent.parent.resolve()
+RESOURCES_DIR: Final[Path] = DIR / "cibuildwheel/resources"
+
+GET_VIRTUALENV_GITHUB: Final[str] = "https://github.com/pypa/get-virtualenv"
+GET_VIRTUALENV_URL_TEMPLATE: Final[
+    str
+] = f"{GET_VIRTUALENV_GITHUB}/blob/{{version}}/public/virtualenv.pyz?raw=true"
+
+
+class VersionTuple(NamedTuple):
+    version: Version
+    version_string: str
+
+
+def git_ls_remote_versions(url) -> list[VersionTuple]:
+    versions: list[VersionTuple] = []
+    tags = subprocess.run(
+        ["git", "ls-remote", "--tags", url], check=True, text=True, capture_output=True
+    ).stdout.splitlines()
+    for tag in tags:
+        _, ref = tag.split()
+        assert ref.startswith("refs/tags/")
+        version_string = ref[10:]
+        try:
+            version = Version(version_string)
+            if version.is_devrelease:
+                log.info(f"Ignoring development release '{version}'")
+                continue
+            if version.is_prerelease:
+                log.info(f"Ignoring pre-release '{version}'")
+                continue
+            versions.append(VersionTuple(version, version_string))
+        except InvalidVersion:
+            log.warning(f"Ignoring ref '{ref}'")
+    versions.sort(reverse=True)
+    return versions
+
+
+@click.command()
+@click.option("--force", is_flag=True)
+@click.option(
+    "--level", default="INFO", type=click.Choice(["WARNING", "INFO", "DEBUG"], case_sensitive=False)
+)
+def update_virtualenv(force: bool, level: str) -> None:
+
+    logging.basicConfig(
+        level="INFO",
+        format="%(message)s",
+        datefmt="[%X]",
+        handlers=[RichHandler(rich_tracebacks=True, markup=True)],
+    )
+    log.setLevel(level)
+
+    toml_file_path = RESOURCES_DIR / "virtualenv.toml"
+
+    original_toml = toml_file_path.read_text()
+    with toml_file_path.open("rb") as f:
+        loaded_file = tomli.load(f)
+    version = str(loaded_file["version"])
+    versions = git_ls_remote_versions(GET_VIRTUALENV_GITHUB)
+    if versions[0].version > Version(version):
+        version = versions[0].version_string
+
+    result_toml = (
+        f'version = "{version}"\n'
+        f'url = "{GET_VIRTUALENV_URL_TEMPLATE.format(version=version)}"\n'
+    )
+
+    rich.print()  # spacer
+
+    if original_toml == result_toml:
+        rich.print("[green]Check complete, virtualenv version unchanged.")
+        return
+
+    rich.print("virtualenv version updated.")
+    rich.print("Changes:")
+    rich.print()
+
+    toml_relpath = toml_file_path.relative_to(DIR).as_posix()
+    diff_lines = difflib.unified_diff(
+        original_toml.splitlines(keepends=True),
+        result_toml.splitlines(keepends=True),
+        fromfile=toml_relpath,
+        tofile=toml_relpath,
+    )
+    rich.print(Syntax("".join(diff_lines), "diff", theme="ansi_light"))
+    rich.print()
+
+    if force:
+        toml_file_path.write_text(result_toml)
+        rich.print("[green]TOML file updated.")
+    else:
+        rich.print("[yellow]File left unchanged. Use --force flag to update.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    update_virtualenv()

cibuildwheel/__main__.py

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 import argparse
 import os
+import shutil
 import sys
 import textwrap
+from pathlib import Path
+from tempfile import mkdtemp
 from typing import List, Set, Union
 
 import cibuildwheel
@@ -10,9 +13,15 @@
 import cibuildwheel.util
 import cibuildwheel.windows
 from cibuildwheel.architecture import Architecture, allowed_architectures_check
+from cibuildwheel.logger import log
 from cibuildwheel.options import CommandLineArguments, Options, compute_options
 from cibuildwheel.typing import PLATFORMS, PlatformName, assert_never
-from cibuildwheel.util import BuildSelector, Unbuffered, detect_ci_provider
+from cibuildwheel.util import (
+    CIBW_CACHE_PATH,
+    BuildSelector,
+    Unbuffered,
+    detect_ci_provider,
+)
 
 
 def main() -> None:
@@ -32,12 +41,11 @@ def main() -> None:
         choices=["auto", "linux", "macos", "windows"],
         default=os.environ.get("CIBW_PLATFORM", "auto"),
         help="""
-            Platform to build for. For "linux" you need docker running, on Mac
-            or Linux. For "macos", you need a Mac machine, and note that this
-            script is going to automatically install MacPython on your system,
-            so don't run on your development machine. For "windows", you need to
-            run in Windows, and it will build and test for all versions of
-            Python. Default: auto.
+            Platform to build for. Use this option to override the
+            auto-detected platform or to run cibuildwheel on your development
+            machine. Specifying "macos" or "windows" only works on that
+            operating system, but "linux" works on all three, as long as
+            Docker is installed. Default: auto.
         """,
     )
 
@@ -165,6 +173,9 @@ def main() -> None:
     # Python is buffering by default when running on the CI platforms, giving problems interleaving subprocess call output with unflushed calls to 'print'
     sys.stdout = Unbuffered(sys.stdout)  # type: ignore[assignment]
 
+    # create the cache dir before it gets printed & builds performed
+    CIBW_CACHE_PATH.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
     print_preamble(platform=platform, options=options, identifiers=identifiers)
 
     try:
@@ -187,17 +198,23 @@ def main() -> None:
     if not output_dir.exists():
         output_dir.mkdir(parents=True)
 
-    with cibuildwheel.util.print_new_wheels(
-        "\n{n} wheels produced in {m:.0f} minutes:", output_dir
-    ):
-        if platform == "linux":
-            cibuildwheel.linux.build(options)
-        elif platform == "windows":
-            cibuildwheel.windows.build(options)
-        elif platform == "macos":
-            cibuildwheel.macos.build(options)
-        else:
-            assert_never(platform)
+    tmp_path = Path(mkdtemp(prefix="cibw-run-")).resolve(strict=True)
+    try:
+        with cibuildwheel.util.print_new_wheels(
+            "\n{n} wheels produced in {m:.0f} minutes:", output_dir
+        ):
+            if platform == "linux":
+                cibuildwheel.linux.build(options, tmp_path)
+            elif platform == "windows":
+                cibuildwheel.windows.build(options, tmp_path)
+            elif platform == "macos":
+                cibuildwheel.macos.build(options, tmp_path)
+            else:
+                assert_never(platform)
+    finally:
+        shutil.rmtree(tmp_path, ignore_errors=sys.platform.startswith("win"))
+        if tmp_path.exists():
+            log.warning(f"Can't delete temporary folder '{str(tmp_path)}'")
 
 
 def print_preamble(platform: str, options: Options, identifiers: List[str]) -> None:
@@ -218,6 +235,8 @@ def print_preamble(platform: str, options: Options, identifiers: List[str]) -> N
     print(f"  platform: {platform!r}")
     print(textwrap.indent(options.summary(identifiers), "  "))
 
+    print(f"Cache folder: {CIBW_CACHE_PATH}")
+
     warnings = detect_warnings(platform=platform, options=options, identifiers=identifiers)
     if warnings:
         print("\nWarnings:")

cibuildwheel/linux.py

@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ def build_on_docker(
     log.step_end()
 
 
-def build(options: Options) -> None:
+def build(options: Options, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     try:
         # check docker is installed
         subprocess.run(["docker", "--version"], check=True, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL)