[SciPy-user] Issues building from source on windows (SVN)

[Ryan Krauss]

I saved your 3 lines to a script and here is the output:

In [5]: run special.py
[  6.3801619    9.76102313  13.01520072  16.22346616  19.40941523]

No crashes.

Ryan

On 5/23/07, Giulio Venezian <gvenezian at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think my email can handle the 2 meg. Before you send
> me the exe file though, could you try a little
> experiment and see whether your version can handle
> jn_zeros and jnp_zeros? The code would be something
> like this:
> from scipy import special
> z=special.jn_zeros(3,5)
> print z
>
> Giulio
> --- Ryan Krauss <ryanlists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am going to give my students an executable that is
> > built for P3's
> > and AMD's if the one from scipy.org for SSE2 chips
> > doesn't work for
> > them.  I mainly followed the instructions from here
> > http://scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Windows
> > ignoring the section about Intel MKL stuff.  So
> > basically I did 5 things:
> > 1. Check out Numpy and Scipy from SVN (download
> > tortoisesvn
> > http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/)
> > 2. Setup a basic MinGW compiler system (I find this
> > to be more painful
> > than the MinGW people seem to think it is.  You need
> > to download
> > almost all of the bin packages they provide and
> > unpack them into a
> > folder on your path so that you can type "gcc -v" in
> > a cmd.exe window
> > and get some sensible response.  You need to make
> > sure you get
> > gcc-core, gcc-g77, mingw-runtime, and w32-api.  The
> > mingw-runtime
> > contains things like stdio.h.)
> > 3. Download the precomiled ATLAS binaries (follow
> > link on
> > Installing_Scipy/Windows parge)
> > 4. Create a site.cfg file that contains
> > [atlas]
> > library_dirs = c:\path\to\BlasLapackLibs
> > atlas_libs = lapack, f77blas, cblas, atlas
> > 5. type c:\path\to\python.exe setup.py config
> > --compiler=mingw32 build
> > --compiler=mingw32 bdist_wininst
> > at a cmd.exe prompt.
> >
> > The exe file created isn't perfect, there are some
> > test failures.  But
> > I think it meets my needs.  If your email can handle
> > 2 meg
> > attachments, I can send you my exe file to try.  I
> > don't know if you
> > need the numpy and the scipy one or if my scipy will
> > work with your
> > numpy.
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> > On 5/22/07, Giulio Venezian <gvenezian at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > excuse me if i keep barging into this
> > conversation.
> > >
> > > Ryan: Do I gather from all this that you have
> > > succeeded in constructing an AMD-compatible
> > version of
> > > SciPy?
> > >
> > > Would you please share what you've learned? As I
> > > mentioned before I'm trying to get the functions
> > > special.jn_zeros and special.jnp_zeros to work on
> > my
> > > AMD-based machine. Other than using the
> > > self-installing version, I don't understand how
> > one
> > > goes about constructing a version of SciPy.
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate it very much if you would email me
> > > whatever instructions you prepare for your
> > students.
> > >
> > > Giulio
> > > --- Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ryan Krauss wrote:
> > > > > Is there an easy way to test every package
> > except
> > > > ndimage?  Because it
> > > > > fails and completely crashes Python, I don't
> > know
> > > > any tests that run
> > > > > after ndimage also fail.
> > > >
> > > > from numpy import NumpyTest
> > > >
> > > > packages = """
> > > > scipy.cluster
> > > > scipy.fftpack
> > > > scipy.integrate
> > > > scipy.interpolate
> > > > scipy.io
> > > > scipy.lib
> > > > scipy.linalg
> > > > scipy.linsolve
> > > > scipy.maxentropy
> > > > scipy.misc
> > > > scipy.odr
> > > > scipy.optimize
> > > > scipy.signal
> > > > scipy.sparse
> > > > scipy.special
> > > > scipy.stats
> > > > scipy.stsci
> > > > scipy.weave
> > > > """.strip().split()
> > > >
> > > > for subpkg in packages:
> > > >     print subpkg
> > > >     t = NumpyTest(subpkg)
> > > >     t.test(1, 2)
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Robert Kern
> > > >
> > > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is
> > an
> > > > enigma, a harmless enigma
> > > >  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to
> > > > interpret it as though it had
> > > >  an underlying truth."
> > > >   -- Umberto Eco
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