[Build] Wheel file not present after build from source with `--build_wheel`

[CorbinFoucart]

Describe the issue

I'm attempting to build an onnxruntime wheel (v1.22.2) from source on Linux (Ubuntu 24.04). I am using the onnxruntime-supplied build script build.sh, namely per the instructions in the docs:

./build.sh --config RelWithDebInfo --build_shared_lib --build_wheel --parallel --compile_no_warning_as_error --skip_submodule_sync

Urgency

No response

Target platform

Linux

Build script

./build.sh --config RelWithDebInfo --build_shared_lib --build_wheel --parallel --compile_no_warning_as_error --skip_submodule_sync

Error / output

The build runs successfully. From the docs, it seems there should be a directory build/Linux/RelWithDebInfo/dist which contains a *.whl file, however this dist directory is not produced by the build.

Visual Studio Version

No response

GCC / Compiler Version

gcc (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0

[CorbinFoucart]

Your issue seems to be that during the build process,

• setup.py is not copied to the build directory
• onnxruntime/python is not copied to the build directory
• docs/python is not copied to the build directory

if I manually copy these over and manually run python3 setup.py bdist_wheel I am able to build a functional wheel file. However, I still believe this to be a build bug.

[xadupre]

I just built onnxruntime with the following command line and I did not have any issue. Is it possible to remove the build folder and start again?

python ./tools/ci_build/build.py --config Release --build_wheel --build_dir ./build/linux --build_shared_lib --parallel 3  --skip_tests --allow_running_as_root

[CorbinFoucart]

Every time I rebuild I remove the build directory so that I clear the previous CMakeCache. I also tried on a fresh GCP linux machine and also encountered the same build problem for release v1.22.2, (Debian, cmake 4.1, python 3.12) so I don't think the issue is specific to my setup.

However, since I know how to fix it by hand, feel free to close this issue if your internal tests are passing.