Will need to figure out how to cross compile that, but meson-python doesn't support it yet (mesonbuild/meson-python#321).

If we move robotpy-build over to meson-python, solving this will be a requirement, so maybe we'll fix it then?

cross-compiling scipy is technically possible, but I don't trust the result yet. Needs testing. Also, numpy + scipy need some cross-compiling adjustments, will have to work on those later.

It has some special requirements that need to be added first

This has come up several times, and I honestly don't know enough about rust to actually make it work (but maybe @auscompgeek does?). For anyone who runs into this and really wants to make it work, here's my current thoughts on how this might work:

• You need a docker image that has the rust compiler in it (need to add a new image to https://github.com/wpilibsuite/docker-images)
• Need to updated wheels.yml to point to that image (https://github.com/robotpy/roborio-wheels/blob/2024/.github/workflows/wheels.yml)
• Need to convince rust to build the python package while cross compiling for the roborio ARM processor
  • For setuptools and distutils packages, we use crossenv. Not sure how this would interact with a rust build

Anyone who is seriously trying to solve this should make a docker image with the right stuff in it, and manually figure out how to build the python wheel correctly. If you can get that working, I'm willing to automate the rest of it.

TODO

We have disk space pressure issues on the RIO I, this might help.