Python is doing a lot of abstracting for you. In the realm of building C/C++ software using an odd menagerie of system packages and from-source dependencies one might need to figure out the cross-build process of each dependency, and make a prefix for the cross-arch system libraries… it’s doable but the paved path is definitely narrow and there’s lots of thorns when you stray into the jungle. And then you still need to run the tests.
Apologies, my point was that for a while, getting python to go cross platform was surprisingly difficult. Specifically if you had any native included, of course.
And agreed that you needed a cross compiler with all of the necessary libraries. For common targets, I don't remember this ever being that particularly difficult with gcc?
