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* Add support for building iOS wheels.

* Replace use of system() in test binary module.

* Restored the 'minimal' approach of the minimal examples.

* Split out platform details into standalone pages, and expand iOS platform details.

* More doc corrections.

* Bump support package to include fix for python/cpython#130292

* Ensure iOS tests are all run on the same xdist worker.

* More iOS documentation tweaks.

* Factor out common xcode version test utility.

* Simplify iOS to a single platform with an expanded interpretation of arch.

* I guess I should update the iOS tests as well...

* Additional safety for missing iOS test output.

* Remove DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH from the iOS environment.

* Make test-sources mandatory for iOS builds.

* Updates and clarifications to documentation.

* Clarify what a slice is.

* Normalize use of underscores in platform name.

* Modify auto target to be matching CPU only.

* Use consistent ordering of platforms in examples.

* Use consistent naming in iOS archiectures.

* Placate the linter.

* Miscellaneous cleanups picked up by @joerick's review.

* Correct the list of expected wheels.

* Correct which 'native' we're actually checking.

* Correct the docs links so they're all relative.

* Correct the identification of free threaded builds.

* Use target instead of host to describe the platform we're building for.

* Rework iOS test to remove issue with log completeness.

* Convert errors to FatalError

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* Removed a repeated check for a valid python.

* Update bin/update_pythons.py to update iOS support packages.

* Document that iOS CI is available on other platforms.

* Restore a comment needed for some platforms.

* Small cleanups identified in code review

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* Simplify logic to appease linter.

* Modify dependency constraint handling to use new API.

* Cosmetic change to trigger a CI rebuild.

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Windows builds

Pre-requisites

You must have native build tools (i.e., Visual Studio) installed.

Because the builds are happening without full isolation, there might be some differences compared to CI builds (Visual Studio version, OS version, local files, ...) that might prevent you from finding an issue only seen in CI.

In order to speed-up builds, cibuildwheel will cache the tools it needs to be reused for future builds. The folder used for caching is system/user dependent and is reported in the printed preamble of each run (e.g. Cache folder: C:\Users\Matt\AppData\Local\pypa\cibuildwheel\Cache).

You can override the cache folder using the CIBW_CACHE_PATH environment variable.