Support Installing Python Bindings from CMake or Using System Version of cudnn-frontend in setup.py

[BwL1289]

Due to this block and the inability to install python bindings, we have forked cudnn-frontend to support installing the python bindings using meson.

Because we are using meson, this also installs a .dist-info into site-packages.

Is there interest in getting this merged upstream?

[BwL1289]

@Anerudhan is there interest in this?

Somewhat related, your note says installing python bindings from cmake is not supported, but it is. See how Z3 does it. At our request Z3 also now supports installing a .dist-info into site-packages.

[BwL1289]

@Anerudhan bumping this. Id like to deprecate our fork. FWIW, this is needed because theres no way to install python bindings via setup.py using our system version of cudnn-frontend.

[Anerudhan]

Hi @BwL1289 ,

Sorry for being late.

Is this issue still open for you?

I have a PR #403 which fixes this. (Alternatively, I would like to hear why pip install -v . does not work)

cmake -DCUDNN_FRONTEND_BUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON \
      -DCUDNN_FRONTEND_INSTALL_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON \
      -DCUDNN_FRONTEND_BUILD_SAMPLES=OFF -DCUDNN_FRONTEND_BUILD_TESTS=OFF ..
cmake --build . -j
cmake --install .

Thanks
Anerudhan