On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.cer...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:57 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:28 AM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I see there is no Windows 64 bit installer for the 1.7 rc1. >>>> >>>> related: >>>> Is there any chance to get newer mingw or mingw-w64 support "soonish"? >>> >>> The problem has no solution until we can restrict support to windows 7 >>> and above. Otherwise, any acceptable solution would require user to be >>> an admin. >> >> The installer is built with this VM/scripts: >> >> https://github.com/certik/numpy-vendor >> >> currently the VM itself is 32 bit. I think that might be upgraded to 64bit, >> and maybe it's possible to use 64 bit Wine: >> >> http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64 >> >> but then we would need to figure out how to use Mingw with 64 bits. >> >> I would be very happy to accept patches to the above repository. >> >> Alternatively, if the actual Windows 64bit machine would have to be used, >> is there any way to automate the process? Would you compile it from command >> line >> (cmd.exe), just like I do in Wine? I would much prefer if we can figure out >> how to do this in Wine, so that the process can be automated and other people >> can easily reproduce it. > > I wonder whether getting ming64 to work on 64 bit Wine is too hard to > get working before the release? I often can't get 32-bit Wine > working, and we've apparently got problems with mingw64 on native > windows. > > As a short term fix, how about an Amazon image with the Windows 64 bit > compilers on it? > > Or can Christophe Gohlke help us out here?
As a temporary measure it might make sense to just deem the cgolke builds official and upload them to the usual places -- or at least, it seems like it might make sense to me, but it depends on what Christophe thinks :-). -n _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
