mine the filename template (self.filename_tpl), then we set the output filename (self.filename). The template is needed while creating aliases (self.get_aliases), which are needed while generating .so shared libraries for Linux. Besides this, there's also the import library name (self.import_filename), which is only used on Windows since on that platform the linker uses a separate library called the "import library" during linking instead of the shared library (DLL). r–