Hi Winnie, As far as I know, there are basically two options for compiling the C core and the Python interface from scratch on Windows:
1. Use Microsoft Visual Studio to compile the C core and then use a version of Python downloaded from python.org to compile the Python interface as well (using the usual "python setup.py install" command, which will in turn use Visual Studio of course). 2. Use Cygwin to compile the C core and use the version of Python supplied within Cygwin (NOT a version from python.org) to compile the Python interface (again, using "python setup.py install", which will use gcc from Cygwin). MinGW *might* work but I haven't tried it for a while so I can't comment on that. However, I'm pretty sure that mixing an instance of Python from python.org with a Cygwin-compiled C extension won't work. The installers that we provide are built using option #1. Personally, I use Microsoft Visual Studio Express to compile the C core. Note that we have an MSVC tarball that you can download from the homepage -- this contains the source code of the C core and a Microsoft Visual Studio project file that should work as is using Visual Studio Express. Theoretically, all you have to do is to open the project file, set the build mode to "Release" in Visual Studio and then run "Build All" to compile the C interface. Once you have done that, you need the source code of the Python interface, adjust setup.cfg to make sure that the include files and the generated library files can be found by Python when it runs the compilation, and then execute "python setup.py install". If you get stuck somewhere, let me know and I'll try to help if you go down this road. Cheers, Tamas _______________________________________________ igraph-help mailing list igraph-help@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/igraph-help
