Numpy build errors, was Numpy 16.0 binaries available? (Win32)

[Robin Becker]

In article <wf2r5.100$vj3.184687 at news.pacbell.net>, Keith Farmer <farmerk at pacbell.net> writes
>Attempting to locate binaries of Numpy 16.0 for Win32.  Anybody have them?
>
>Keith Farmer
>deoradh at yahoo.com
>
>
I'm trying to build this right now, but get errors in the setup.

First I had
C:\Python\devel\Numeric-16.0>python setup.py build
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "setup.py", line 14, in ?
    vs = map(string.atoi, string.split(v, '.'))
  File "<built-in>", line 2, in map
ValueError: invalid literal for atoi(): 2pre

I can fix that as it's only a distutils version check, but
C:\Python\devel\Numeric-16.0>python setup.py build
\usr\local\lib\blas.lib ...not there...
\usr\lib\blas.lib ...not there...
lapack_lite\blas.lib ...not there...
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "setup.py", line 50, in ?
    raise ValueError, 'Cannot locate BLAS library; please see README'
ValueError: Cannot locate BLAS library; please see README

This seems to imply I should build separately the blas/lapack lite libs.
Unfortunately, all the makefiles are completely gnucentric and won't work with VC++.
I thought the whole point of the distutils/setup.py stuff was to get these things built properly
on all platforms?
-- 
Robin Becker