Hi, On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> 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? > > > -1 on providing an "official" solution which will require admin rights for > the produced installer and not work for scipy.
Sorry if I am being slow, but I don't follow. Am I right in thinking that we can currently build numpy 64 bit installers with the Microsoft tools, and that these would be distributable without admin rights for windows >=XP ? Why would this solution not work for scipy? Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
