[SOLVED] Add python project based on pyproject.toml to yocto image

Add python project based on pyproject.toml to yocto image

I'm putting together a recipe that's supposed to add amqtt to my image (https://github.com/Yakifo/amqtt). The project only comes with a pyproject.toml but lacks a setup.py. Thus, bitbake is complaining that setup.py cannot be found I'm on branch dunfell and these are the most relevant parts of my recipe:

HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/Yakifo/amqtt"

SRC_URI = "git://github.com/Yakifo/amqtt;protocol=https"

SRCREV = "4beb912c2a0d58d66140ce68b6a31991c2c48b30"

S = "${WORKDIR}/git"

inherit setuptools3 pypi distutils

Your input is highly appreciated.

Solution

The solution by adding a do_configure:prepend() function worked for me, with one exception.

If you're going to have more than one recipe with this workaround, they will conflict in the site-packages directory, since setup() doesn't know what to call them.

I'd recommend populating at least some of the arguments to the setup() function. Your recipe already has PYPI_PACKAGE, LICENSE and PV defined, so they're easy to add.

do_configure:prepend() {
cat > ${S}/setup.py <<-EOF
from setuptools import setup

setup(
       name="${PYPI_PACKAGE}",
       version="${PV}",
       license="${LICENSE}",
)
EOF
}