I meant to click on "save" not "send", anyway: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> Either MSVC or MinGW 3.4.5. For the latter see >> https://github.com/certik/numpy-vendor >> >> Ralf > > I was trying with mingw32 via cygwin with gcc 2.4.4,
Typo, gcc 3.4.4 > which also failed with a cryptic error: > > ... > File > "C:\Downloads\numpy-1.7.0b2\build\py3k\numpy\distutils\mingw32ccompiler.p > y", line 94, in __init__ > msvcr_success = build_msvcr_library() > File > "C:\Downloads\numpy-1.7.0b2\build\py3k\numpy\distutils\mingw32ccompiler.p > y", line 336, in build_msvcr_library > if int(msvcr_name.lstrip('msvcr')) < 80: > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lstrip' I think part of the problem could be in numpy/distutils/misc_util.py where there is no code to detect MSCV 10, def msvc_runtime_library(): "Return name of MSVC runtime library if Python was built with MSVC >= 7" msc_pos = sys.version.find('MSC v.') if msc_pos != -1: msc_ver = sys.version[msc_pos+6:msc_pos+10] lib = {'1300' : 'msvcr70', # MSVC 7.0 '1310' : 'msvcr71', # MSVC 7.1 '1400' : 'msvcr80', # MSVC 8 '1500' : 'msvcr90', # MSVC 9 (VS 2008) }.get(msc_ver, None) else: lib = None return lib https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py#L353 Under Python 3.3, we have: Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:55:48) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.version '3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:55:48) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)]' i.e. It looks to me like that dictionary needs another entry for key '1600'. Peter _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion