[throwawaymaths]

> That is, unless we're talking about some system libraries/drivers needed for CUDA in particular (which is system stuff) rather than virtualenv itself.

Sir, this is an ML thread.

Venv interacts with that poorly, though to be fair it could be googles fault. Still it shouldn't be even possible.

[drdaeman]

I mean, virtualenv is not supposed to interact with that at all. System libraries are systems' package manager responsibility. Doubly so, as - as I get it - all this stuff is directly tied to the kernel driver.

What Python's package manager (pip in virtualenv) should do is build (or download prebuilt binaries) the relevant bindings and that's the extent of it. If others say it works this way with C (that comment about cmake and pkgconfig), then it must work this way with Python too.