[SciPy-dev] Building scipy core on windows

[Travis Oliphant]

Travis Brady wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd actually like to try compiling for 2.4 too, is this possible w/o 
> Visual Studio (I am using Python 2.4.1 compiled with VS)? 
> Maybe with MingW?

Yes, that's what I use.  Get MSYS and MinGW.  Download a binary version 
of ATLAS if you want fast linear algebra.  If you don't care, then don't 
worry about that part --- the code should still build.

Then, check out the latest SVN tree (Tortoise SVN is an excellent 
windows SVN client that makes it easy).   The URL is 
http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy_core/trunk

You should be able to go into the directory where you placed the tree 
and type

python setup.py config --compiler=mingw32 build --compiler=mingw32 install

or

python setup.py config --compiler=mingw32 build --compiler=mingw32 
bdist_wininst

to get an installable executable.  


Alternatively, to avoid all the --compiler=xxxxx noise you can create 
(or modify if you already have one) a distutils configuration file for 
your version of Python.  The file name is

<your python director>\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg

and the contents should contain

[build]
compiler = mingw32

[config]
compiler = mingw32


On my system

C:\Python24\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg

is where it is located.


-Travis