David Cournapeau wrote: > Michael Abshoff wrote:
Hi David, >> Sure, but there isn't even a 32 bit gcc out there that can produce 64 >> bit PE binaries (aside from the MinGW fork that AFAIK does not work >> particularly well and allegedly has issues with the cleanliness of some >> of the code which is allegedly the reason that the official MinGW people >> will not touch the code base) . > > The biggest problem is that officially, there is still no gcc 4 release > for mingw. I saw a gcc 4 section in cygwin, though, so maybe it is about > to be released. There is no support at all for 64 bits PE in the 3 serie. Yes, you are correct and I was wrong. I just checked out the mingw-64 project and there has been a lot of activity the last couple month, including a patch to build pthread-win32 in 64 bit mode. > I think binutils officially support 64 bits PE (I can build a linux > hosted binutils for 64 bits PE with x86_64-pc-mingw32 as a target, and > it seems to work: disassembling and co). gcc 4 can work, too (you can > build a bootstrap C compiler which targets windows 64 bits IICR). The > biggest problem AFAICS is the runtime (mingw64, which is indeed legally > murky). I would really like to find the actual reason *why* the legal status of the 64 bit MinGW port is murky (To my knowledge it has to do with taking code from the MS Platform toolkit - but that is conjecture), so I guess I will do the obvious thing and ask on the MinGW list :) >> Ok, that is a concern I usually do not have since I tend to build my own >> Python :). > > I would say that if you can build python by yourself on windows, you can > certainly build numpy by yourself :) It took me quite a time to be able > to build python on windows by myself from scratch. Sure, I do see your point. Accidentally someone posted about http://debian-interix.net/ on the sage-windows list today. It offers a gcc 4.2 toolchain and AFAIK there is at least a patch set for ATLAS to make it work on Interix. > cheers, > > David Cheers, Michael > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion