[Numpy-discussion] Building on Windows

[Tim Hochberg]

Albert Strasheim wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>It seems that many people are building on Windows without problems, except
>for Stephan and myself.
>
>Let me start by staying that yes, the default build on Windows with MinGW
>and Visual Studio works nicely.
>
>However, is anybody building with ATLAS and finding that experience to be
>equally painless? If so, *please* can you tell me how you've organized your
>libraries (which libraries? CLAPACK? FLAPACK? .a? .lib? What about ATLAS's
>LAPACK functions? What about building ATLAS as DLL?). Also, I'd be very
>interested in the contents of your site.cfg.  I've been trying for many
>weeks to do some small subset of the above without hacking into the core of
>numpy.distutils. So far, no luck.
>  
>
Sorry, no help here. I'm just doing vanilla builds.

>Does anybody do debug builds on Windows? Again, please tell me how you do
>this, because I would really like to be able to build a debug version of
>NumPy for debugging with the MSVS compiler.
>  
>
Again just vanilla builds, although this is something I'd like to try 
one of these days. (Is that MSVC compiler, or is that yet another 
compiler for windows).

>As for compiler warnings, last time I checked, distutils seems to be
>suppressing the output from the compiler, except when the build actually
>fails. Or am I mistaken?
>  
>
Hmm. I hadn't thought about that. It certainly spits out plenty of 
warnings when the build fails, so I assumed that it was always spitting 
out warnings. [Fiddle] Ouch! It does indeed seem to supress warnings on 
a successful compilation. Anyone know a way to stop that off the top of 
their head?

>Eagerly awaiting Windows build nirvana,
>  
>
Heh!

Regards,

-tim