setup.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import sys

from distutils.core import setup
from distutils import spawn
import distutils.command.build as _build
from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib


def extend_build(package_name):
    class build(_build.build):
        def run(self):
            cwd = os.getcwd()
            if spawn.find_executable('cmake') is None:
                sys.stderr.write("CMake is required to build this package.\n")
                sys.exit(-1)
            _source_dir = os.path.split(__file__)[0]
            _build_dir = os.path.join(_source_dir, 'build_setup_py')
            _prefix = os.path.join(get_python_lib(), package_name)
            try:
                spawn.spawn(['cmake',
                             '-H{0}'.format(_source_dir),
                             '-B{0}'.format(_build_dir),
                             '-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX={0}'.format(_prefix),
                             ])
                spawn.spawn(['cmake',
                             '--build', _build_dir,
                             '--target', 'install'])
                os.chdir(cwd)
            except spawn.DistutilsExecError:
                sys.stderr.write("Error while building with CMake\n")
                sys.exit(-1)
            _build.build.run(self)
    return build


setup(name='account',
      version='0.0.0',
      description='Description in here.',
      author='Bruce Wayne',
      author_email='me@example.org',
      url='http://example.org',
      packages=['account'],
      license='MPL-v2.0',
      install_requires=['cffi'],
      cmdclass={'build': extend_build('account')})