I have a C++ project that I'm adapting to be usable from Python. Its dependencies are all vendored C libraries, so the build needs to happen in at least 2 parts, one for the C sources and one for the Cython & C++ sources. I'm having trouble figuring out the right way to do this through setuptools in my setup.py though.
I can see that distutils exposes a way to manually invoke the compiler, but when you ask it for the compiler, it picks a default based on os.name instead of resolving which one the setup() function is going to use.
