Building wheels from source: missing setup.py?

[Dapid]

The documentation states:

We provide a PyPI distribution which is created from this folder by running python setup.py bdist_wheel.

But I cannot find said setup:

~/librealsense$ find . -name setup.py
./build/third-party/pybind11/setup.py
./wrappers/python/examples/ethernet_client_server/setup.py

Where is it? Is the documentation out of date?

[MartyG-RealSense]

Hi @Dapid This file is not actually required, because it builds a PyPi whl package file that is already available online. If you are using a version of Python 3 that is compatible with the packages then all you need to do is input pip install pyrealsense2 to initiate installation of the wrapper with the pre-made online whl file.

https://pypi.org/project/pyrealsense2/#files

For PCs, at the time of writing this installation of the pyrealsense2 wrapper by the pip install method works with Python 3.9 to Python 3.13.

For Arm based computing devices such as Jetson, only Python 3.9 or 3.10 can be used.

If you have a Python 3 version that is new enough not to yet have a whl file for it then the wrapper can work with it if it is built from source code instead of pip install.

[Dapid]

I am trying to build the wheels precisely because my configuration is not published in Pypi. I can build the library without issues, but instead of creating a wheel, it puts it into one of the system's python's. That runs, so I know this will work, but I need a wheel to synchronize between devices and keep isolated environments.

Also, since it is documented, it should work, no?

[MartyG-RealSense]

I checked through the source code of each SDK version. It appears that the last time that the setup.py file was included was in versions 2.55.1 and 2.56.3. I have extracted the setup.py file from the 2.56.3 SDK and attached it to this comment for you so you can download it.

setup.py