[Numpy-discussion] Blas / lapack / binary installers...

2009-04-08 Thread Matthew Brett
Hello, Summary: is it possible to distribute, optionally or not, the blas / lapack libraries that numpy is built against, with the numpy binary installers? We at the NIPY project have run into what seems like a recurring problem; we want to build our code against both numpy and lapack, on

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Blas / lapack / binary installers...

2009-04-08 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Matthew Brett wrote: Summary: is it possible to distribute, optionally or not, the blas / lapack libraries that numpy is built against, with the numpy binary installers? You mean the unlinked libraries (.a or .so), and the corresponding headers, I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Blas / lapack / binary installers...

2009-04-08 Thread David Cournapeau
Hi Matthew, On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Summary: is it possible to distribute, optionally or not, the blas / lapack libraries that numpy is built against, with the numpy binary installers? Yes, it is possible. We at the NIPY project

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Blas / lapack / binary installers...

2009-04-08 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, We at the NIPY project have run into what seems like a recurring problem; we want to build our code against both numpy and lapack, on windows, linux and OS X. No problem of course if we've done a development install - we already needed to have blas/lapack. I am not sure I understand:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Blas / lapack / binary installers...

2009-04-08 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:11:13AM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: No problem of course if we've done a development install - we already needed to have blas/lapack. I am not sure I understand: why do you need blas/lapack to build projects ? Does NiPY itself uses blas/lapack ? NiPy uses

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Blas / lapack / binary installers...

2009-04-08 Thread David Cournapeau
Matthew Brett wrote: Yes it does... Ok. Yes, I know, hence my suggestion of something more practical in the short term. I wonder whether the installer could be: by default, smallish, with just numpy, with the option of pulling down the lapack libraries from the web on installation