CMake / renaming the extension

[thorstenhater]

Hi,

I am experimenting with porting a project from pybind11 to nanobind. Our desired extension module name clashes
with the C++ library name in CMake. Is there a way to define a target separate from the generated extension's name.
Renaming the considerable amount of uses of the original name would be hard.

Desired behaviour:

import arbor

but

nanobind_add_module(arbor ...) # ERROR

clashes with earlier name, the underlying C++ library. I checked the lower level CMake functionality's documentation,
but didn't find an option for this. Preferably something like this

nanobind_add_module(pyarbor EXTENSION_NAME arbor ...) # CMake target is pyarbor, avoiding the clash.

(or maybe there's a CMake trick I don't know about.)

[tigrux]

In my cmake file, i am using something like this:

nanobind_add_module(foo_python ...)
set_target_properties(foo_python PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME foo_)

And in Macos this creates foo_.cpython-313-darwin.so

[thorstenhater]

Thanks, I'll try that!