[SciPy-user] Enthought installation
Peter Wang
pwang at enthought.com
Fri Apr 18 14:43:19 EDT 2008
On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:03 AM, lorenzo bolla wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying to install the Enthought distribution on my windows box,
> with the following command:
> enstaller enthon ets
>
> After having downloaded all the packages, the installation aborts
> with the following error:
<snip>
> Obviously, I do not have Visual Studio, but I do have cygwin with
> mingw32 compiler.
> I tried the simple command: enstaller enthon ets -c mingw32, with no
> luck.
You should create a pydistutils.cfg file to let distutils know that
you want to use mingw32 to build extensions. Here are the steps:
1. Create a c:\documents and settings\USERNAME\pydistutils.cfg file
(where USERNAME is your login) with the following contents:
[build]
compiler=mingw32
2. Create the new environment variable HOME and set it to the value c:
\docume~1\USERNAME where USERNAME is your login name.
3. Start a new instance of the cmd.exe.
Let me know if the above doesn't work for some reason. Also, as Gael
mentioned, questions regarding enthought-specific stuff will get more
visibility if you ask them on the enthought-dev mailing list. :)
-Peter
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