Kirill Smelkov wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:29:58AM +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 01:35:50AM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >>> I finally found time to install virtualbox on my Debian and windows + >>> ubuntu images on it. >>> >> I figured all that out all ready, but I am stuck at one problem: how to >> get a windows license? I do have a windows license, it came with my >> computer, but it won't accept running under virtualbox. >> >> I am not buying one! >> > > A bit late reply is that one could try to use WINE to test SymPy on > win32 platform. > > Recently I've crafted a tool to unroll development environment > (Python+NumPy+MinGW+other-extras) under WINE, and perform quick jumps > between Linux and Win32 worlds: > > http://landau.phys.spbu.ru/~kirr/cgi-bin/hg.cgi/navy-wine-devtools/ > > you could even run ipython on win32 console and access the same SymPy > files you are currently editing under Linux > > This piece of code lacks (yet) documentation, so I'll write here how to > setup it: > > $ hg clone http://landau.phys.spbu.ru/~kirr/cgi-bin/hg.cgi/navy-wine-devtools/ > $ cd navy-wine-devtools/ > > $ cd distrib/ > > # now we are going to download all the win32 software we need (it's kind > # of a distribution) > $ ./__fetchblobs__.sh > # ... a lot of downloading is happenning ... > > # let's get back and setup WINE instance > $ cd .. > $ export WINEPREFIX=`pwd`/x.navwin32 > # ^ ^ ^ > # WINEPREFIX points to where our windows setup will live (and btw, you > # can have several win32 instances simultaneously) > > # let's finally create win32 instance! > $ ./navy-wine-dev-install.sh > # ... a lot of things are installed and optionally compiled ... > > # source handy win32-jump aliases > $ . waliases.sh > > # ---- now let's get to try SymPy/win32 ---- > > # first clone sympy > $ hg clone http://hg.sympy.org/sympy > $ cd sympy > > $ wipython # this invokes ipython from under win32, or > $ widle > > and try import sympy there and other things > > and as a bonus, here is how to build msi installer for sympy under Linux: > > $ wpython setup.py bdist_msi > > That's it. > > ------ > > And the last note -- I've got ok from my supervisor to share this, and > also we could generalize this to some general tool (at present the > needed setup is hardcoded), so if anyone is interested, let's create > separate project for this, and of course: > > Patches Welcome! > > What worked for me was running XP in virtualbox on my ubuntu laptop and then testing the python code I developed on linux in XP!
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