usage: pyproject-build [-h] [--version] [--quiet | --verbose] [--outdir PATH] [--sdist-extract-dir PATH] [--sdist] [--wheel] [--metadata] [--report PATH] [--config-setting KEY=[VALUE] | --config-json JSON_STRING] [--installer {pip,uv} | --no-isolation] [--env-dir PATH] [--dependency-constraints-txt PATH] [--skip-dependency-check] [srcdir] A simple, correct Python build frontend. By default, a source distribution (sdist) is built from the project root and a binary distribution (wheel) is built from the sdist. If this is undesirable, you can pass `--sdist` and/or `--wheel` to build distributions independently of each other. positional arguments: srcdir source directory, .tar.gz source distribution, or (with --metadata) a .whl to read metadata from (defaults to the current working directory) global options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --version, -V show program's version number and exit --quiet, -q reduce verbosity --verbose, -v increase verbosity build options: --outdir PATH, -o PATH output directory (defaults to {srcdir}/dist). Cannot be used together with ``--metadata`` --sdist-extract-dir PATH extract the intermediate sdist to PATH (created if missing and kept afterwards) instead of a random temporary directory; reusing it across rebuilds gives compiler caches such as ccache/sccache a stable source path. Only affects the default (via-sdist) build and building a wheel from an sdist --sdist, -s build a source distribution (disables the default behavior) --wheel, -w build a wheel (disables the default behavior) --metadata print out a wheel's metadata in JSON format, building it first unless the source argument is already a .whl. Cannot be used in conjunction with ``--sdist`` or ``--wheel`` --report PATH write a machine-readable JSON report of the built artifacts (name, path, kind, size and SHA-256 hash) to this path. Cannot be used together with ``--metadata`` --config-setting KEY=[VALUE], -C KEY=[VALUE] settings to pass to the backend. Multiple settings can be provided. Settings beginning with a hyphen will erroneously be interpreted as options to build if separated by a space; use ``--config-setting=--my- setting -C--my-other-setting`` instead. A setting passed without ``=VALUE`` is given an empty value, but this form is not supported by pip; write ``KEY=`` instead for compatibility --config-json JSON_STRING settings to pass to the backend as a JSON object. This is an alternative to ``--config-setting`` that allows complex nested structures. Cannot be used together with ``--config-setting`` installation options: --installer {pip,uv} Python package installer to use (defaults to pip) --no-isolation, -n disable building the project in an isolated virtual environment. Build dependencies must be installed separately when this option is used --env-dir PATH create the isolated build environment at this location instead of a temporary directory. The location must be empty; it is removed on success and kept on failure so it can be inspected --dependency-constraints-txt PATH constrain build dependencies using a constraints.txt when installing dependencies --skip-dependency-check, -x do not check that build dependencies are installed