PIP3-WHEEL(1) pip PIP3-WHEEL(1)
NAME
pip3-wheel - description of pip3 wheel command
DESCRIPTION
Build Wheel archives for your requirements and dependencies.
Wheel is a built-package format, and offers the advantage of not recom-
piling your software during every install. For more details, see the
wheel docs: ]8;;https://wheel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/\https://wheel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/]8;;\
'pip wheel' uses the build system interface as described here: ]8;;https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/build-system/\-
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/build-system/]8;;\
USAGE
python -m pip wheel [options] <requirement specifier> ...
python -m pip wheel [options] -r <requirements file> ...
python -m pip wheel [options] [-e] <vcs project url> ...
python -m pip wheel [options] [-e] <local project path> ...
python -m pip wheel [options] <archive url/path> ...
OPTIONS
-w, --wheel-dir <dir>
Build wheels into <dir>, where the default is the current working
directory.
(environment variable: PIP_WHEEL_DIR)
--no-binary <format_control>
Do not use binary packages. Can be supplied multiple times, and
each time adds to the existing value. Accepts either ":all:" to
disable all binary packages, ":none:" to empty the set (notice
the colons), or one or more package names with commas between
them (no colons). Note that some packages are tricky to compile
and may fail to install when this option is used on them.
(environment variable: PIP_NO_BINARY)
--only-binary <format_control>
Do not use source packages. Can be supplied multiple times, and
each time adds to the existing value. Accepts either ":all:" to
disable all source packages, ":none:" to empty the set, or one or
more package names with commas between them. Packages without bi-
nary distributions will fail to install when this option is used
on them.
(environment variable: PIP_ONLY_BINARY)
--prefer-binary
Prefer binary packages over source packages, even if the source
packages are newer.
(environment variable: PIP_PREFER_BINARY)
--no-build-isolation
Disable isolation when building a modern source distribution.
Build dependencies specified by PEP 518 must be already installed
if this option is used.
(environment variable: PIP_NO_BUILD_ISOLATION)
--use-pep517
Use PEP 517 for building source distributions (use
--no-use-pep517 to force legacy behaviour).
(environment variable: PIP_USE_PEP517)
--check-build-dependencies
Check the build dependencies when PEP517 is used.
(environment variable: PIP_CHECK_BUILD_DEPENDENCIES)
-c, --constraint <file>
Constrain versions using the given constraints file. This option
can be used multiple times.
(environment variable: PIP_CONSTRAINT)
-e, --editable <path/url>
Install a project in editable mode (i.e. setuptools "develop
mode") from a local project path or a VCS url.
(environment variable: PIP_EDITABLE)
-r, --requirement <file>
Install from the given requirements file. This option can be used
multiple times.
(environment variable: PIP_REQUIREMENT)
--src <dir>
Directory to check out editable projects into. The default in a
virtualenv is "<venv path>/src". The default for global installs
is "<current dir>/src".
(environment variable: PIP_SRC, PIP_SOURCE, PIP_SOURCE_DIR,
PIP_SOURCE_DIRECTORY)
--ignore-requires-python
Ignore the Requires-Python information.
(environment variable: PIP_IGNORE_REQUIRES_PYTHON)
--no-deps
Don't install package dependencies.
(environment variable: PIP_NO_DEPS, PIP_NO_DEPENDENCIES)
--progress-bar <progress_bar>
Specify whether the progress bar should be used [on, off, raw]
(default: on)
(environment variable: PIP_PROGRESS_BAR)
--no-verify
Don't verify if built wheel is valid.
(environment variable: PIP_NO_VERIFY)
-C, --config-settings <settings>
Configuration settings to be passed to the PEP 517 build backend.
Settings take the form KEY=VALUE. Use multiple --config-settings
options to pass multiple keys to the backend.
(environment variable: PIP_CONFIG_SETTINGS)
--build-option <options>
Extra arguments to be supplied to 'setup.py bdist_wheel'.
(environment variable: PIP_BUILD_OPTION)
--global-option <options>
Extra global options to be supplied to the setup.py call before
the install or bdist_wheel command.
(environment variable: PIP_GLOBAL_OPTION)
--pre Include pre-release and development versions. By default, pip
only finds stable versions.
(environment variable: PIP_PRE)
--require-hashes
Require a hash to check each requirement against, for repeatable
installs. This option is implied when any package in a require-
ments file has a --hash option.
(environment variable: PIP_REQUIRE_HASHES)
--group <[path:]group>
Install a named dependency-group from a "pyproject.toml" file. If
a path is given, the name of the file must be "pyproject.toml".
Defaults to using "pyproject.toml" in the current directory.
(environment variable: PIP_GROUP)
--no-clean
Don't clean up build directories.
(environment variable: PIP_NO_CLEAN)
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