[Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff onWindows

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Quick question on this: has anyone looked at the Open Watcom compiler? There
> was a lighting talk at Pycon about a guy who's been working on getting
> Python itself to build on Windows with this compiler. I don't know if it
> might help in all this, if nothing else it mitght be good to have. This was
> the fellow who presented (and his Twitter handle makes me think he might be
> interested in this conversation too, I didn't have a chance to catch him,
> unfortunately):

I didn't list openwatcom in the Fortran section because it doesn't do
64-bit - as far as I can see:

http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/About_Open_Watcom

That's a real killer, because it seems that about 90 percent of
Windows users are on 64-bit systems, and I suppose some large
proportion of those will download the Python 64-bit installer and then
wonder why we don't support it for numpy.

Cheers,

Matthew