[Distutils] pip on windows experience

[Paul Moore]

On 30 January 2014 09:12, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 29 January 2014 22:50, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> i.e. it would be nice if anyone setup to build C extensions could "just
>> >> build numpy".
>> >
>> > This has always been possible, and if not, that's certainly considered
>> > as a
>> > bug (I would be eager to fix).
>>
>> I don't know if you saw my comment earlier in this thread:
>>
>> > A quick test later:
>> > No BLAS/ATLAS/LAPACK causes a string of warnings, And ignoring the
>> > rest of the error stack (which I'm frankly not interested in investing
>> > the time to diagnose and fix) I get "RuntimeError: Broken toolchain:
>> > cannot link a simple C program". Which is utter rubbish - I routinely
>> > build extensions with this installation.
>>
>> This is a straight "pip install numpy" run in a virtualenv on Windows
>> 7 64-bit with MSVC 2010 (full edition) installed.
>
>
> which version of python ?
>
> For 2.x, it is expected to fail at that point, since you can't build C
> extensions with something different than 2008 (with python.org builds).
>
> For 3.3, it means there is a bug that needs to be fixed.

Doh. Sorry, I knew I'd forget something. 3.3.
Paul