On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Pauli Virtanen <p...@iki.fi> wrote: > Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:42:05 -0400, josef.pktd wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:17 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Fadhley Salim >>> <fadhley.sa...@uk.calyon.com> wrote: >>>> I've been asked to provide Numpy & Scipy as python egg files. >>>> Unfortunately Numpy and Scipy do not make official releases of their >>>> product in .egg form for a Win32 platform - that means if I want eggs >>>> then I have to compile them myself. >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>> >>>> At the moment my employer provides Visual Studio.Net 2003, which will >>>> compile no version of Numpy later than 1.1.1 - every version released >>>> subsequently cannot be compiled with VS2003. I've tried. >>> >>> Yes, this is a visual studio bug. >>> >>> >>>> What I'd really like is some other compiler I can use, perhaps for >>>> free, but at a push as a free time-limited trial. I would use that to >>>> compile the eggs. Is anybody aware of another compiler that I can >>>> download and use without paying anything and will definitely compile >>>> Numpy on Windows? >>> >>> The compilers that are regularly used to compile python on windows are >>> the mingw compilers. If you only need numpy and not scipy, there are no >>> dependencies, and only the C compiler is needed. It should compile out >>> of the box. >>> >>> Otherwise, you will need to compile your own blas/lapack, which is >>> complicated on windows. The blas/lapack sources are to be downloaded >>> from netlib.org: >>> >>> http://netlib.org/lapack/ >>> >>> You should not use the version 3.2 (3.1.1 is fine, and is the version >>> used to build the numpy binaries). >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> David >> >> numpy compiles fine with mingw, but I never managed to build an egg. I'm >> not able to get the --compiler=mingw32 to be recognized. > > I think it might work if you separate the compiling and bdist_egg steps: > > setupegg.py build --compiler=mingw32 bdist_egg > > Does this help?
Perfect, I thought I had tried all possible combinations. (but still strange) Josef _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion