I was thinking about for a little bit and wanted to open issue this issue mostly to host some discussion.

Currently pyads is published only as a source package, no wheels at all: https://pypi.org/project/pyads/#files.
When installed on Linux/Mac, adslib is always compiled during install and the resulting .so library is dumped amidst the pyads source code, where it's dynamically loaded at runtime.

This definitely works, but I feel it's not according to modern standard and could be improved.

I would suggest we distribute mainly as wheels instead. So we'd publish:

• A wheel for Linux, already including the compiled adslib (and no adslib source)
• A wheel for MacOS, already including the compiled adslib (and no adslib source)
• A wheel for Windows, containing only the pyads source and no adslib source or binaries
• A source distribution for platforms falling through the cracks, with the adslib source and no binaries so they can be compiled during installation

This way most installations shouldn't require any compilation at all.
I'm pretty far with an example of this already.