[Numpy-discussion] Moving to gcc 4.* for win32 installers ?

[Sturla Molden]

On 27.10.2011 15:02, David Cournapeau wrote:

>    - we need to recompile atlas (but I can take care of it)
>    - the biggest: it is difficult to combine gfortran with visual
> studio (more exactly you cannot link gfortran runtime to a visual
> studio executable).

Why is that?

I have used gfortran with Python on Windows a lot, never had a problem. 
It's not like we are going to share CRT resources between C/Python and 
Fortran. That would be silly, regardless of compiler.

Sturla