contrib: add a bat file to build all of the wheels on Windows...
contrib: add a bat file to build all of the wheels on Windows
This is duplicated from the current CI config, to be able to build releases
consistently outside of CI. I don't like the duplication, but I'm not worried
about things changing too often, so I'm not bothering with PowerShell or some
form that would allow execution by the CI runner. We should consider putting
the config in `pyproject.toml`, where things like what python versions to
support can be centrally controlled for all platforms. The output directory is
different from CI here, but that's fine because it is intended to run this on a
system that is *not* hosting the CI setup, and `dist/` is more standard. I
dropped the `win32` part of the output because that implies the 32-bit Intel
architecture.
Apparently, arm64 builds are supported back to Python 3.9, but support is still
experimental (with py3.13)[1]. The CI system starts arm64 support with Python
3.11, because that's the first version that an arm64 Python installer was
available on Windows. This doesn't second guess that decision.
The required `msgfmt.exe` was installed manually[2], as it isn't currently
handled by the dependency installation script. Otherwise, this was successfully
used with an activated venv based on Python 3.12.5, and only `cibuildwheel==2.21.3`
installed.
[1]
https://cibuildwheel.pypa.io/en/stable/#what-does-it-do
[2]
https://github.com/mlocati/gettext-iconv-windows/releases/download/v0.22.5a-v1.17-r3/gettext0.22.5a-iconv1.17-shared-64.exe
