[SciPy-dev] Fail in building numpy(svn).

[Stephan Tolksdorf]

Hi Wenjii

Building Numpy in Cygwin is currently not supported, at least not until 
somebody applies the patch from ticket #114. This fact was pointed out 
in the very first line of scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Windows

However, even if you use MinGW (the compilers from mingw.org, NOT the 
mingw compilers in Cygwin) or apply the patch yourself, Numpy currently 
does not compile (ticket #129). A quick fix is to wait until your build 
fails and then to replace the backslashes in the first line of 
src.win32-2.4/numpy/core/src/umathmodule.c
with two backslashes "\\".

Regards,
   Stephan