Older archives: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/manylinux-discuss
The goal of the manylinux project is to provide a convenient way to distribute binary Python extensions as wheels on Linux. This effort has produced PEP 513 (manylinux1), PEP 571 (manylinux2010), PEP 599 (manylinux2014), PEP 600 (manylinux_x_y) and PEP 656 (musllinux_x_y).
PEP 513 defined manylinux1_x86_64
and manylinux1_i686
platform tags and the wheels were built on Centos5. Centos5 reached End of Life (EOL) on March 31st, 2017.
PEP 571 defined manylinux2010_x86_64
and manylinux2010_i686
platform tags and the wheels were built on Centos6. Centos6 reached End of Life (EOL) on November 30th, 2020.
PEP 599 defines the following platform tags: manylinux2014_x86_64
, manylinux2014_i686
, manylinux2014_aarch64
, manylinux2014_armv7l
, manylinux2014_ppc64
, manylinux2014_ppc64le
and manylinux2014_s390x
. Wheels are built on CentOS 7. CentOS 7 reached End of Life (EOL) on June 30th, 2024.
PEP 600 has been designed to be "future-proof" and does not enforce specific symbols and a specific distro to build. It only states that a wheel tagged manylinux_x_y
shall work on any distro based on glibc>=x.y
. PEP 656 added musllinux_x_y
tags for musl>=x.y
.
An overview of distros per glibc version is available at pep600_compliance.
The manylinux project supports:
manylinux2014
images for x86_64
, i686
, aarch64
, ppc64le
and s390x
.manylinux_2_28
images for x86_64
, i686
, aarch64
, ppc64le
and s390x
.manylinux_2_34
images for x86_64
, aarch64
, ppc64le
and s390x
.musllinux_1_2
images for x86_64
, i686
, aarch64
, ppc64le
, s390x
and armv7l
.Wheel packages compliant with those tags can be uploaded to PyPI (for instance with twine) and can be installed with pip:
manylinux
tag Client-side pip version required CPython (sources) version embedding a compatible pip Distribution default pip compatibility manylinux_x_y
pip >= 20.3 3.8.10+, 3.9.5+, 3.10.0+ ALT Linux 10+, RHEL 9+, Debian 11+, Fedora 34+, Mageia 8+, Photon OS 3.0 with updates, Ubuntu 21.04+ manylinux2014
pip >= 19.3 3.7.8+, 3.8.4+, 3.9.0+ CentOS 7 rh-python38, CentOS 8 python38, Fedora 32+, Mageia 8+, openSUSE 15.3+, Photon OS 4.0+ (3.0+ with updates), Ubuntu 20.04+ manylinux2010
pip >= 19.0 3.7.3+, 3.8.0+ ALT Linux 9+, CentOS 7 rh-python38, CentOS 8 python38, Fedora 30+, Mageia 7+, openSUSE 15.3+, Photon OS 4.0+ (3.0+ with updates), Ubuntu 20.04+ manylinux1
pip >= 8.1.0 3.5.2+, 3.6.0+ ALT Linux 8+, Amazon Linux 1+, CentOS 7+, Debian 9+, Fedora 25+, openSUSE 15.2+, Mageia 7+, Photon OS 1.0+, Ubuntu 16.04+
The various manylinux tags allow projects to distribute wheels that are automatically installed (and work!) on the vast majority of desktop and server Linux distributions.
This repository hosts several manylinux-related things:
Building manylinux-compatible wheels is not trivial; as a general rule, binaries built on one Linux distro will only work on other Linux distros that are the same age or newer. Therefore, if we want to make binaries that run on most Linux distros, we have to use an old enough distro.
Rather than forcing you to install an old distro yourself, install Python, etc., we provide Docker images where we've done the work for you. The images are uploaded to quay.io and are tagged for repeatable builds.
manylinux_2_34 (AlmaLinux 9 based) - ALPHACaveat: On x86_64, RHEL 9+ derivatives are using x86-64-v2 target architecture. While manylinux worked around that when building from sources by intercepting compiler calls to target x86_64 instead, every library installed with dnf will most likely target the more recent x86-64-v2 which, if grafted into a wheel, will fail to run on older hardware. There's no PEP to handle micro-architecture variants yet when it comes to packaging or installing wheels. Auditwheel doesn't detect this either. See #1725
Toolchain: GCC 14
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_34_x86_64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_34_aarch64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_34_ppc64le
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_34_s390x
Built wheels are also expected to be compatible with other distros using glibc 2.34 or later, including:
Caveat:
Only Debian derivatives are available for armv7l. They do not provide recent builds of the GCC toolchain compatible with a vanilla install of the distribution. As such, we only get the GCC toolchain shipped with the base distribution.
The package manager & packages names are different than what is found on other manylinux images. Other images are using RHEL derivatives only for now so using yum/dnf as a package manager and RHEL like packages names this image is using apt and Debian like packages names.
If one depends on let's say OpenSSL development package, then, the commands to issue to install it are a bit different:
dnf -y install openssl-devel
on RHEL derivativesapt-get update && apt-get install -y libssl-dev
on Debian derivativesToolchain: GCC 9
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_31_armv7l
Built wheels are also expected to be compatible with other distros using glibc 2.31 or later, including:
Toolchain: GCC 14
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_x86_64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_i686
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_aarch64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_ppc64le
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_s390x
Built wheels are also expected to be compatible with other distros using glibc 2.28 or later, including:
Toolchain: GCC 10
quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_i686
quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_ppc64le
quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_s390x
Built wheels are also expected to be compatible with other distros using glibc 2.17 or later, including:
Support for manylinux_2_24
has ended on January 1st, 2023.
These images have some caveats mentioned in different issues.
Toolchain: GCC 6
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_24_x86_64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_24_i686
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_24_aarch64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_24_ppc64le
quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_24_s390x
Support for manylinux2010
has ended on August 1st, 2022.
Toolchain: GCC 8
quay.io/pypa/manylinux2010_x86_64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux2010_i686
Code and details regarding manylinux1
can be found in the manylinux1 tag.
Support for manylinux1
has ended on January 1st, 2022.
Toolchain: GCC 4.8
quay.io/pypa/manylinux1_x86_64
quay.io/pypa/manylinux1_i686
Toolchain: GCC 14
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_2_x86_64
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_2_i686
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_2_aarch64
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_2_ppc64le
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_2_s390x
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_2_armv7l
Support for musllinux_1_1
has ended on November 1st, 2024.
Toolchain: GCC 9
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_1_x86_64
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_1_i686
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_1_aarch64
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_1_ppc64le
quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_1_s390x
All supported images are rebuilt using GitHub Actions / Travis-CI on every commit to this repository; see the docker/ directory for source code.
All supported images currently contain:
CPython 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.13t, 3.14, 3.14t and PyPy 3.10, 3.11 installed in /opt/python/<python tag>-<abi tag>
. The directories are named after the PEP 425 tags for each environment -- e.g. /opt/python/cp313-cp313
contains a CPython 3.13 build, and can be used to produce wheels named like <pkg>-<version>-cp313-cp313-<arch>.whl
.
Development packages for all the libraries that PEP 571/599 list. One should not assume the presence of any other development package.
The manylinux-interpreters tool which allows to list all available interpreters & install ones missing from the image
3 commands are available:
manylinux-interpreters list
usage: manylinux-interpreters list [-h] [-v] [-i] [--format {text,json}] list available or installed interpreters options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -v, --verbose display additional information (--format=text only, ignored for --format=json) -i, --installed only list installed interpreters --format {text,json} text is not meant to be machine readable (i.e. the format is not stable)
manylinux-interpreters ensure-all
usage: manylinux-interpreters ensure-all [-h] make sure all interpreters are installed options: -h, --help show this help message and exit
manylinux-interpreters ensure
usage: manylinux-interpreters ensure [-h] TAG [TAG ...] make sure a list of interpreters are installed positional arguments: TAG tag with format '<python tag>-<abi tag>' e.g. 'pp310-pypy310_pp73' options: -h, --help show this help message and exit
Note that less common or virtually unheard of flag combinations (such as --with-pydebug
(d
) and --without-pymalloc
(absence of m
)) are not provided.
Note that starting with CPython 3.8, default sys.abiflags
became an empty string: the m
flag for pymalloc became useless (builds with and without pymalloc are ABI compatible) and so has been removed. (e.g. /opt/python/cp38-cp38
)
Note that PyPy is not available on ppc64le & s390x or on the musllinux images.
To build the Docker images, please run the following command from the current (root) directory:
$ PLATFORM=$(uname -m) POLICY=manylinux2014 COMMIT_SHA=latest ./build.sh
Please note that the default Docker build is using buildx. Other frontends can be selected by defining MANYLINUX_BUILD_FRONTEND. See build.sh for details.
Updating the requirementsThe requirement files are pinned and controlled by uv compile. To update the pins, run:
$ nox -s update_python_dependenciesUpdating the native dependencies
Native dependencies are all pinned in the Dockerfile. To update the pins, run the dedicated nox session. This will add a commit for each update. If you only want to see what would be updated, you can do a dry run:
$ nox -s update_native_dependencies [-- --dry-run]
An example project which builds x86_64 wheels for each Python interpreter version can be found here: https://github.com/pypa/python-manylinux-demo. The repository also contains demo to build i686 and x86_64 wheels with manylinux1
tags.
This demonstrates how to use these docker images in conjunction with auditwheel to build manylinux-compatible wheels using the free travis ci continuous integration service.
(NB: for the i686 images running on a x86_64 host machine, it's necessary to run everything under the command line program linux32, which changes reported architecture in new program environment. See this example invocation)
The official version of PEP 513 is stored in the PEP repository, but we also have our own copy here. This is where the PEP was originally written, so if for some reason you really want to see the full history of edits it went through, then this is the place to look.
The proposal to upgrade manylinux1
to manylinux2010
after Centos5 reached EOL was discussed in PEP 571.
The proposal to upgrade manylinux2010
to manylinux2014
was discussed in PEP 599.
The proposal for a "future-proof" manylinux_x_y
definition was discussed in PEP 600.
This repo also has some analysis code that was used when putting together the original proposal in the policy-info/
directory.
If you want to read the full discussion that led to the original policy, then lots of that is here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/manylinux-discuss
The distutils-sig archives for January 2016 also contain several threads.
Everyone interacting in the manylinux project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the PSF Code of Conduct.
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