Include binaries for different OS in python package setup.py

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I am writing a Python package mypackage in which I have to include Fortran executable binaries that I have precompiled for Linux, Mac and Windows. I want to upload them all, but then when the User does pip install my package, it should only download the relevant binaries and add them to $PATH such that I can run subprocess.call(bin1) later, to call the binary. The package looks like

Project/
|-- bin/
|   |-- mac/
|   |    |--bin1
|   |    |--bin2
|   |-- windows/
|   |    |--bin1
|   |    |--bin2
|   |    |--dllfile_1
|   |    |--dllfile_2
|   |-- linux/
|        |--bin1
|        |--bin2
|
|-- src/
|   |   
|   |-- __init__.py
|   |-- main.py
|
|-- setup.py
|-- README

and in my setup.py I have tried something like:

import system
if system == 'Linux':
    bin1 = 'bin/linux/bin1'
    bin2 = 'bin/linux/bin2'
    os='linux'
if system == 'Windows':
    bin1 = 'bin/win/bin1.exe'
    bin2 = 'bin/win/bin2.exe'
    os='win'
if system == 'Darwin':
    bin1 = 'bin/mac/bin1'
    bin2 = 'bin/mac/bin2'
    os='mac'

Then, if in my setuptools.setup() I include data_files = [('bin',[bin1,bin2])]. When I upload the package from Mac, that seems to only work on Mac as it only uploads the Mac binaries (so better than nothing, but even that is insufficient). However, I will need to do something like data_files = [('bin',glob(f'{os}/*'))], (to include the dll files for win) which doesn't seem to work at all (i.e. pip show -f my package doesn't include any of the binaries, whereas it does for the former case). What is the best solution to this? Do I need to specify all paths to all binaries in data_files (if so, how, because the glob() thing doesn't seem to work) - and then how are only the os-specific binaries (and also dll files if win) downloaded upon pip install my package.

All other questions that I found similar to this are either too different or don't do exactly what I want.

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