diff --git a/tools/build/build_lib.sh b/tools/build/build_lib.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..032fcb92045f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/build/build_lib.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# This script builds the libraries of mxnet.
+make_config=config/pip_${PLATFORM}_${VARIANT}.mk
+if [[ ! -f $make_config ]]; then
+    >&2 echo "Couldn't find make config $make_config for the current settings."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet mxnet-build
+
+>&2 echo "Now building mxnet modules..."
+cp $make_config mxnet-build/config.mk
+
+cd mxnet-build
+
+make DEPS_PATH=$DEPS_PATH DMLCCORE
+make DEPS_PATH=$DEPS_PATH $PWD/3rdparty/tvm/nnvm/lib/libnnvm.a
+make DEPS_PATH=$DEPS_PATH PSLITE
+
+if [[ $VARIANT == *mkl ]]; then
+    MKLDNN_LICENSE='license.txt'
+    if [[ $PLATFORM == 'linux' ]]; then
+        IOMP_LIBFILE='libiomp5.so'
+        MKLML_LIBFILE='libmklml_intel.so'
+        MKLDNN_LIBFILE='libmkldnn.so.0'
+    else
+        IOMP_LIBFILE='libiomp5.dylib'
+        MKLML_LIBFILE='libmklml.dylib'
+        MKLDNN_LIBFILE='libmkldnn.0.dylib'
+    fi
+    make DEPS_PATH=$DEPS_PATH mkldnn
+    cp 3rdparty/mkldnn/LICENSE ./MKLML_LICENSE
+fi
+
+if [[ $VARIANT == *mkl ]]; then
+    >&2 echo "Copying MKL license."
+    rm lib/libmkldnn.{so,dylib}
+    rm lib/libmkldnn.0.*.dylib
+    rm lib/libmkldnn.so.0.*
+fi
+
+>&2 echo "Now building mxnet..."
+make DEPS_PATH=$DEPS_PATH || exit 1;
+
+if [[ $PLATFORM == 'linux' ]]; then
+    cp -L /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/libgfortran.so lib/libgfortran.so.3
+    cp -L /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libquadmath.so.0 lib/libquadmath.so.0
+fi
+
+# Print the linked objects on libmxnet.so
+>&2 echo "Checking linked objects on libmxnet.so..."
+if [[ ! -z $(command -v readelf) ]]; then
+    readelf -d lib/libmxnet.so
+    strip --strip-unneeded lib/libmxnet.so
+elif [[ ! -z $(command -v otool) ]]; then
+    otool -L lib/libmxnet.so
+    strip -u -r -x lib/libmxnet.so
+else
+    >&2 echo "Not available"
+fi
+
+cd ../
diff --git a/tools/pip_package/MANIFEST.in b/tools/build/build_wheel.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 69%
rename from tools/pip_package/MANIFEST.in
rename to tools/build/build_wheel.sh
index 5c6a72377e9f..a79634117c21
--- a/tools/pip_package/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/tools/build/build_wheel.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
 # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 # or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 # distributed with this work for additional information
@@ -15,6 +17,15 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
-include README
-recursive-include * *.py
-recursive-include * *.so
+# This script builds the wheel for binary distribution and performs sanity check.
+
+cd mxnet-build
+echo $(git rev-parse HEAD) >> python/mxnet/COMMIT_HASH
+cd -
+
+# Make wheel for testing
+python setup.py bdist_wheel
+
+wheel_name=$(ls -t dist | head -n 1)
+pip install -U --user --force-reinstall dist/$wheel_name
+python sanity_test.py
diff --git a/tools/dependencies/make_shared_dependencies.sh b/tools/dependencies/make_shared_dependencies.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..d678fddcc02d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/dependencies/make_shared_dependencies.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# This is a convenience script for calling the build scripts of all dependency libraries.
+# Environment variables should be set beforehand.
+
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null && pwd )"
+
+
+if [[ ! $PLATFORM == 'darwin' ]]; then
+    source $DIR/openblas.sh
+fi
+source $DIR/libz.sh
+source $DIR/libturbojpeg.sh
+source $DIR/libpng.sh
+source $DIR/libtiff.sh
+source $DIR/openssl.sh
+source $DIR/curl.sh
+source $DIR/eigen.sh
+source $DIR/opencv.sh
+source $DIR/protobuf.sh
+source $DIR/cityhash.sh
+source $DIR/zmq.sh
+source $DIR/lz4.sh
diff --git a/tools/dependencies/opencv.sh b/tools/dependencies/opencv.sh
index 98ff115f1765..99d0ecb71c36 100755
--- a/tools/dependencies/opencv.sh
+++ b/tools/dependencies/opencv.sh
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 # This script builds the static library of opencv that can be used as dependency of mxnet.
 # It expects openblas, libjpeg, libpng, libtiff, eigen, etc., to be in $DEPS_PATH.
 OPENCV_VERSION=3.4.2
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null && pwd )"
 if [[ $PLATFORM == 'linux' ]]; then
     OPENCV_LAPACK_OPTIONS=" \
           -D OpenBLAS_HOME=$DEPS_PATH \
@@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ if [[ ! -f $DEPS_PATH/lib/libopencv_core.a ]] || [[ ! -f $DEPS_PATH/lib/libopenc
           -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE \
           -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$DEPS_PATH ..
     if [[ $PLATFORM == 'linux' ]]; then
-        cp $DEPS_PATH/../patch/opencv_lapack.h ./
+        cp $DIR/patch/opencv_lapack.h ./
     fi
     make
     make install
diff --git a/tools/dependencies/patch/opencv_lapack.h b/tools/dependencies/patch/opencv_lapack.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..97af9d67ea31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/dependencies/patch/opencv_lapack.h
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+extern "C" {
+#include "cblas.h"
+#include "lapacke.h"
+}
diff --git a/tools/dependencies/protobuf.sh b/tools/dependencies/protobuf.sh
index dfa3d71f3750..1564701042af 100755
--- a/tools/dependencies/protobuf.sh
+++ b/tools/dependencies/protobuf.sh
@@ -39,3 +39,5 @@ if [[ ! -e $LIBPROTOBUF ]] || [[ ! -e $LIBPROTOC ]]; then
     make install
     cd -
 fi
+
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:$(dirname $(find $DEPS_PATH -type f -name 'libprotoc*' | grep protobuf | head -n 1)):$DEPS_PATH/lib
diff --git a/tools/pip/MANIFEST.in b/tools/pip/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5e072064193c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/pip/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+include README
+include mxnet/COMMIT_HASH
+recursive-include mxnet/tools *
+recursive-include mxnet *.py
+recursive-include mxnet *.so
+recursive-include mxnet *.so.*
+recursive-include mxnet *.dylib
+recursive-include mxnet *_LICENSE
+recursive-include mxnet *.h
+recursive-include mxnet *.cuh
+recursive-include dmlc_tracker *.py
diff --git a/tools/pip/sanity_test.py b/tools/pip/sanity_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dc51e479906b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/pip/sanity_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# coding: utf-8
+"""Sanity test."""
+from __future__ import print_function
+import sys
+from base64 import b64decode
+
+try:
+    import mxnet as mx
+    mx.img.imdecode(b64decode('iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAADUlEQVR42mNkYPhfDwAChwGA60e6kgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==')).asnumpy()
+    print('Test succeeded')
+except:
+    import traceback
+    print('Test failed')
+    traceback.print_exc()
+    sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/tools/pip/setup.py b/tools/pip/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d5db6d87fc1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/pip/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# coding: utf-8
+# pylint: disable=invalid-name, exec-used
+"""Setup mxnet package for pip."""
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from datetime import datetime
+import os
+import sys
+import shutil
+import platform
+
+if platform.system() == 'Linux':
+    sys.argv.append('--universal')
+    sys.argv.append('--plat-name=manylinux1_x86_64')
+
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+from setuptools.dist import Distribution
+
+# We can not import `mxnet.info.py` in setup.py directly since mxnet/__init__.py
+# Will be invoked which introduces dependences
+CURRENT_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+libinfo_py = os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/python/mxnet/libinfo.py')
+libinfo = {'__file__': libinfo_py}
+exec(compile(open(libinfo_py, "rb").read(), libinfo_py, 'exec'), libinfo, libinfo)
+
+LIB_PATH = libinfo['find_lib_path']()
+__version__ = libinfo['__version__']
+if 'TRAVIS_TAG' not in os.environ or not os.environ['TRAVIS_TAG'].strip():
+    __version__ += 'b{0}'.format(datetime.today().strftime('%Y%m%d'))
+elif 'TRAVIS_TAG' in os.environ and os.environ['TRAVIS_TAG'].startswith('patch-'):
+    __version__ = os.environ['TRAVIS_TAG'].split('-')[1]
+
+class BinaryDistribution(Distribution):
+    def has_ext_modules(self):
+        return platform.system() == 'Darwin'
+
+
+DEPENDENCIES = [
+    'numpy<1.15.0,>=1.8.2',
+    'requests>=2.20.0',
+    'graphviz<0.9.0,>=0.8.1'
+]
+
+shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'), ignore_errors=True)
+shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'dmlc_tracker'), ignore_errors=True)
+shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/python/mxnet'),
+                os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/3rdparty/dmlc-core/tracker/dmlc_tracker'),
+                os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'dmlc_tracker'))
+shutil.copy(LIB_PATH[0], os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+
+# copy tools to mxnet package
+shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/tools'), ignore_errors=True)
+os.mkdir(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/tools'))
+shutil.copy(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/tools/launch.py'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/tools'))
+shutil.copy(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/tools/im2rec.py'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/tools'))
+shutil.copy(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/tools/kill-mxnet.py'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/tools'))
+shutil.copy(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/tools/parse_log.py'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/tools'))
+shutil.copy(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/tools/diagnose.py'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/tools'))
+shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/tools/caffe_converter'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/tools/caffe_converter'))
+shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/tools/bandwidth'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/tools/bandwidth'))
+
+# copy headers to mxnet package
+shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/include'), ignore_errors=True)
+os.mkdir(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/include'))
+shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/include/mxnet'),
+                os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/include/mxnet'))
+shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/3rdparty/dlpack/include/dlpack'),
+                os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/include/dlpack'))
+shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/3rdparty/dmlc-core/include/dmlc'),
+                os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/include/dmlc'))
+shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/3rdparty/mshadow/mshadow'),
+                os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/include/mshadow'))
+shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet-build/3rdparty/tvm/nnvm/include/nnvm'),
+                os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet/include/nnvm'))
+
+package_name = 'mxnet'
+
+variant = os.environ['mxnet_variant'].upper()
+if variant != 'CPU':
+    package_name = 'mxnet_{0}'.format(variant.lower())
+
+with open('doc/PYPI_README.md') as readme_file:
+    long_description = readme_file.read()
+
+with open('doc/{0}_ADDITIONAL.md'.format(variant)) as variant_doc:
+    long_description = long_description + variant_doc.read()
+
+# pypi only supports rst, so use pandoc to convert
+import pypandoc
+if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
+    pypandoc.download_pandoc()
+long_description = pypandoc.convert_text(long_description, 'rst', 'md')
+short_description = 'MXNet is an ultra-scalable deep learning framework.'
+libraries = []
+if variant == 'CPU':
+    libraries.append('openblas')
+else:
+    if variant.startswith('CU92'):
+        libraries.append('CUDA-9.2')
+    elif variant.startswith('CU91'):
+        libraries.append('CUDA-9.1')
+    elif variant.startswith('CU90'):
+        libraries.append('CUDA-9.0')
+    elif variant.startswith('CU80'):
+        libraries.append('CUDA-8.0')
+    elif variant.startswith('CU75'):
+        libraries.append('CUDA-7.5')
+    if variant.endswith('MKL'):
+        libraries.append('MKLDNN')
+
+short_description += ' This version uses {0}.'.format(' and '.join(libraries))
+
+package_data = {'mxnet': [os.path.join('mxnet', os.path.basename(LIB_PATH[0]))],
+                'dmlc_tracker': []}
+if variant.endswith('MKL'):
+    if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(LIB_PATH[0]), 'libmklml.dylib'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(LIB_PATH[0]), 'libiomp5.dylib'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(LIB_PATH[0]), 'libmkldnn.0.dylib'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+        package_data['mxnet'].append('mxnet/libmklml.dylib')
+        package_data['mxnet'].append('mxnet/libiomp5.dylib')
+        package_data['mxnet'].append('mxnet/libmkldnn.0.dylib')
+    else:
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(LIB_PATH[0]), 'libmklml_intel.so'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(LIB_PATH[0]), 'libiomp5.so'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(LIB_PATH[0]), 'libmkldnn.so.0'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+        package_data['mxnet'].append('mxnet/libmklml_intel.so')
+        package_data['mxnet'].append('mxnet/libiomp5.so')
+        package_data['mxnet'].append('mxnet/libmkldnn.so.0')
+    shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(LIB_PATH[0]), '../MKLML_LICENSE'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+    package_data['mxnet'].append('mxnet/MKLML_LICENSE')
+if platform.system() == 'Linux':
+    shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(LIB_PATH[0]), 'libgfortran.so.3'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+    package_data['mxnet'].append('mxnet/libgfortran.so.3')
+    shutil.copy(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(LIB_PATH[0]), 'libquadmath.so.0'), os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
+    package_data['mxnet'].append('mxnet/libquadmath.so.0')
+
+from mxnet.base import _generate_op_module_signature
+from mxnet.ndarray.register import _generate_ndarray_function_code
+from mxnet.symbol.register import _generate_symbol_function_code
+_generate_op_module_signature('mxnet', 'symbol', _generate_symbol_function_code)
+_generate_op_module_signature('mxnet', 'ndarray', _generate_ndarray_function_code)
+
+setup(name=package_name,
+      version=__version__,
+      long_description=long_description,
+      description=short_description,
+      zip_safe=False,
+      packages=find_packages(),
+      package_data=package_data,
+      include_package_data=True,
+      install_requires=DEPENDENCIES,
+      distclass=BinaryDistribution,
+      license='Apache 2.0',
+      classifiers=[ # https://pypi.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers
+          'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
+          'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+          'Intended Audience :: Education',
+          'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
+          'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
+          'Programming Language :: C++',
+          'Programming Language :: Cython',
+          'Programming Language :: Other',  # R, Scala
+          'Programming Language :: Perl',
+          'Programming Language :: Python',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython',
+          'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering',
+          'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence',
+          'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics',
+          'Topic :: Software Development',
+          'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
+          'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+      ],
+      url='https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet')
diff --git a/tools/pip_package/README.md b/tools/pip_package/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f289c98b7155..000000000000
--- a/tools/pip_package/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-MXNet Python Package
-====================
-MXNet is a deep learning framework designed for both *efficiency* and *flexibility*.
-It allows you to mix the flavours of deep learning programs together to maximize the efficiency and your productivity.
-
-
-Installation
-------------
-To install, check [Build Instruction](http://mxnet.io/get_started/setup.html)
diff --git a/tools/pip_package/make_pip_package.sh b/tools/pip_package/make_pip_package.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 46b4938b0785..000000000000
--- a/tools/pip_package/make_pip_package.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,179 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-
-# Assuming the script is run at mxnet/tools/pip_package
-# This script builds from scratch the dependencies of mxnet into static
-# librareis and statically links them to produce a (mostly) standalone
-# libmxnet.so, then packages it into the python wheel.
-# It assumes the build environment to be a sandbox that doesn't have the .so
-# objects for the dependencies, i.e. zlib, openblas, libjpeg, libpng, libtiff
-# and opencv.
-
-# Install necessary build tools
-if [ -n "$(command -v apt-get)" ]; then
-    sudo apt-get update;
-    sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git python-pip zip pkg-config cmake
-elif [ -n "$(command -v yum)" ]; then
-    sudo yum install -y cmake
-    sudo yum groupinstall -y "Development Tools"
-    sudo yum install -y python27 python27-setuptools python27-tools python-pip
-else
-    echo "Need a package manager to install build tools, e.g. apt/yum"
-    exit 1
-fi
-sudo pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
-
-# Set up path as temporary working directory
-DEPS_PATH=$PWD/../../deps
-mkdir $DEPS_PATH
-
-# Dependencies can be updated here. Be sure to verify the download link before
-# changing. The dependencies are:
-ZLIB_VERSION=1.2.6
-OPENBLAS_VERSION=0.2.19
-JPEG_VERSION=8.4.0
-PNG_VERSION=1.5.10
-TIFF_VERSION=3.8.2
-OPENCV_VERSION=2.4.13
-
-# Setup path to dependencies
-export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$DEPS_PATH/lib/pkgconfig:$DEPS_PATH/lib64/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
-export CPATH=$DEPS_PATH/include:$CPATH
-
-# Position Independent code must be turned on for statically linking .a
-export CC="gcc -fPIC"
-export CXX="g++ -fPIC"
-
-# Download and build zlib
-curl -L https://github.com/LuaDist/zlib/archive/$ZLIB_VERSION.zip -o $DEPS_PATH/zlib.zip
-unzip $DEPS_PATH/zlib.zip -d $DEPS_PATH
-mkdir $DEPS_PATH/zlib-$ZLIB_VERSION/build
-cd $DEPS_PATH/zlib-$ZLIB_VERSION/build
-cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE \
-      -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$DEPS_PATH \
-      -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF ..
-make -j$(nproc)
-make install
-cd -
-
-# download and build openblas
-curl -L https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/archive/v$OPENBLAS_VERSION.zip -o $DEPS_PATH/openblas.zip
-unzip $DEPS_PATH/openblas.zip -d $DEPS_PATH
-cd $DEPS_PATH/OpenBLAS-$OPENBLAS_VERSION
-make FC=gfortran -j $(($(nproc) + 1))
-make PREFIX=$DEPS_PATH install
-cd -
-ln -s $DEPS_PATH/lib/libopenblas_haswellp-r0.2.19.a $DEPS_PATH/lib/libcblas.a
-
-# download and build libjpeg
-curl -L https://github.com/LuaDist/libjpeg/archive/$JPEG_VERSION.zip -o $DEPS_PATH/libjpeg.zip
-unzip $DEPS_PATH/libjpeg.zip -d $DEPS_PATH
-cd $DEPS_PATH/libjpeg-$JPEG_VERSION
-./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$DEPS_PATH
-make -j$(nproc)
-make test
-make install
-cd -
-
-# download and build libpng
-curl -L https://github.com/LuaDist/libpng/archive/$PNG_VERSION.zip -o $DEPS_PATH/libpng.zip
-unzip $DEPS_PATH/libpng.zip -d $DEPS_PATH
-mkdir $DEPS_PATH/libpng-$PNG_VERSION/build
-cd $DEPS_PATH/libpng-$PNG_VERSION/build
-cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE \
-      -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$DEPS_PATH \
-      -D PNG_CONFIGURE_LIBPNG=-fPIC \
-      -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF ..
-make -j$(nproc)
-make install
-cd -
-
-# download and build libtiff
-curl -L https://github.com/LuaDist/libtiff/archive/$TIFF_VERSION.zip -o $DEPS_PATH/libtiff.zip
-unzip $DEPS_PATH/libtiff.zip -d $DEPS_PATH
-cd $DEPS_PATH/libtiff-$TIFF_VERSION
-./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$DEPS_PATH
-make -j$(nproc)
-make install
-cd -
-
-# download and build opencv since we need the static library
-curl -L https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/archive/$OPENCV_VERSION.zip -o $DEPS_PATH/opencv.zip
-unzip $DEPS_PATH/opencv.zip -d $DEPS_PATH
-mkdir $DEPS_PATH/opencv-$OPENCV_VERSION/build
-cd $DEPS_PATH/opencv-$OPENCV_VERSION/build
-cmake -D WITH_1394=OFF \
-      -D WITH_AVFOUNDATION=OFF \
-      -D WITH_CUDA=OFF \
-      -D WITH_VTK=OFF \
-      -D WITH_CUFFT=OFF \
-      -D WITH_CUBLAS=OFF \
-      -D WITH_NVCUVID=OFF \
-      -D WITH_EIGEN=ON \
-      -D WITH_VFW=OFF \
-      -D WITH_FFMPEG=OFF \
-      -D WITH_GSTREAMER=OFF \
-      -D WITH_GTK=OFF \
-      -D WITH_JASPER=OFF \
-      -D WITH_JPEG=ON \
-      -D WITH_PNG=ON \
-      -D WITH_QUICKTIME=OFF \
-      -D WITH_TBB=ON \
-      -D WITH_TIFF=OFF \
-      -D WITH_V4L=OFF \
-      -D WITH_LIBV4L=OFF \
-      -D WITH_DSHOW=OFF \
-      -D WITH_MSMF=OFF \
-      -D WITH_OPENCL=OFF \
-      -D WITH_OPENCLAMDFFT=OFF \
-      -D WITH_OPENCLAMDBLAS=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_apps=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_gpu=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_video=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_contrib=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_nonfree=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_flann=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_features2d=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_calib3d=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_objdetect=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_ml=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_opencv_photo=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_DOCS=OFF \
-      -D BUILD_PACKAGE=OFF \
-      -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE \
-      -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$DEPS_PATH ..
-make -j $(nproc)
-make install # user will always have access to home, so no sudo needed
-cd -
-
-# Although .so building is explicitly turned off for most libraries, sometimes
-# they still get created. So, remove them just to make sure they don't
-# interfere, or otherwise we might get libmxnet.so that is not self-contained.
-rm $DEPS_PATH/{lib,lib64}/*.{so,so.0}
-
-# Go to the parent path and build mxnet
-cd ../../
-cp make/pip_$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')_cpu.mk config.mk
-make -j $(nproc)
-
-# Generate wheel. The output is in the mxnet/tools/pip_package/dist path.
-cd tools/pip_package
-python setup.py bdist_wheel
diff --git a/tools/pip_package/setup.py b/tools/pip_package/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e4bf48236bde..000000000000
--- a/tools/pip_package/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-# pylint: disable=invalid-name, exec-used
-"""Setup mxnet package."""
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-import os
-import shutil
-
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-from setuptools.dist import Distribution
-
-# We can not import `mxnet.info.py` in setup.py directly since mxnet/__init__.py
-# Will be invoked which introduces dependences
-CURRENT_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)
-libinfo_py = os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, '../../python/mxnet/libinfo.py')
-libinfo = {'__file__': libinfo_py}
-exec(compile(open(libinfo_py, "rb").read(), libinfo_py, 'exec'), libinfo, libinfo)
-
-LIB_PATH = libinfo['find_lib_path']()
-__version__ = libinfo['__version__']
-
-class BinaryDistribution(Distribution):
-    def has_ext_modules(self):
-        return True
-
-
-DEPENDENCIES = [
-    'numpy',
-]
-
-shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'), ignore_errors=True)
-shutil.copytree(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, '../../python/mxnet'),
-                os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
-shutil.copy(LIB_PATH[0], os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'mxnet'))
-
-setup(name='mxnet',
-      version=__version__,
-      description=open(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, 'README.md')).read(),
-      zip_safe=False,
-      packages=find_packages(),
-      package_data={'mxnet': [os.path.join('mxnet', os.path.basename(LIB_PATH[0]))]},
-      include_package_data=True,
-      install_requires=DEPENDENCIES,
-      distclass=BinaryDistribution,
-      url='https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet')