[SciPy-dev] problems with weave

[Robert Kern]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 11:59:44AM +0100, m.prosperi at libero.it wrote:
> hello,
> I've installed the binary distrib of weave on my winNT system with
> mingw32 2.95.2 compiler.
> 
> When I run the tests I get complains because the file cl.exe is
> missing. Can you give me some help?

You need to set up Distutils to use mingw by default. Read
http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/config-syntax.html and in your
pydistutils.cfg add the section

[build]
compiler=mingw32

I think (though I'm not sure) that weave will pick up that setting and
use it.

> regards, Marco Prosperi

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