[Neuroimaging] Installing dipy without compiling

[Ariel Rokem]

Hi Julien,

It should be possible for us to provide pre-compiled binaries for different
platforms. Ideally, that's what we should have on pypi, so that a pip
install doesn't require compilation. However, we are rather stretched as it
is, so we don't usually do that. It would be good to hear what exactly are
your needs: OSX would be easier to support (at least for machines that are
fairly up-to-date, no Power PCs, please...); Windows might be a bit more
challenging (though we do now have a few developers on the team who work on
that platform).

At the very least, I think that you should be able to compile dipy on your
target machine, and distribute that together with your toolbox. I don't see
any reason that wouldn't work.

Cheers,

Ariel


On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Julien Cohen-Adad <jcohen at polymtl.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For the software we are distributing (
> https://github.com/neuropoly/spinalcordtoolbox), we would like to include
> dipy.
>
> It's fairly easy to install it automatically via pip, however the OSX
> platform requires XCode (or other compilers). Since this is a problem for
> some of our users, I was wondering if there is a good way to precompile
> dipy and include it in our package. Currently we do include some binaries
> (e.g. ANTs) that work for OSX (>10.8) and most linux distributions
> therefore this solution is very easy to support.
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Julien
>
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> Associate Director, Functional Neuroimaging Unit, University of Montreal
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