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> So the only thing it doesn't work for is precompiled native extensions where you don't have these source code

Or you can't build it because you're on windows, or the extension was installed precompiled by the package manager (on Python, that's exactly one of the use case for wheels, I don't think wheels ship C code ever), or the extension is coded in non-C (which is very much explicitly supported by CPython: https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html#writing-e...)



Microsoft has done work to make the Windows situation at least incrementally better:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2014-Septemb...

(I'm crassly attaching a bit of information to your post more than trying to respond to anything in it)




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