xmingw and f2py

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Flavio <fccoelho at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I followed the steps you describe exactly and I am still gettin this
>  error message when i try to compile.
> 
>  here is the command I give:
> 
>  f2py -c --compiler=/opt/xmingw/bin/i386-mingw32msvc-gcc
>  n/i386-mingw32msvc-g77 -L /opt/xmingw/i386-mingw32msvc/lib/ -lpython2.4
>  -m flib flib.f
> 
>  and this is the error:
> 
>  copying
>  /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy-1.0b5-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/numpy/f2py/src/fortranobject.c
>  -> /tmp/tmpIkxhAr/src.linux-i686-2.4
>  copying
>  /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy-1.0b5-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/numpy/f2py/src/fortranobject.h
>  -> /tmp/tmpIkxhAr/src.linux-i686-2.4
>    adding '/tmp/tmpIkxhAr/src.linux-i686-2.4/flib-f2pywrappers.f' to
>  sources.
>  running build_ext
>  error: don't know how to compile C/C++ code on platform 'posix' with
>  '/opt/xmingw/bin/i386-mingw32msvc-gcc' compiler
> 
>  any further suggestions?

That looks like a distutils error.

We don't use distutils to build our stuff and I haven't really used it
before so I can't help you there.

You want to tell distutils that the compiler is just gcc somehow and
takes the same options.  Not sure how you do that.

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