A Wednesday 24 March 2010 15:38:58 David Cournapeau escrigué:
Oh, it is not that easy :)
First, for some reason, the mingw-w64 project does not provide 64 hosted compilers, and since pushing for mingw cross compilation support in distutils would redefine the meaning of insanity, I build my gcc. Since building gcc on windows is not a fun ride either, you have to build it on unix (I have the scripts on my github account: github.com/cournape/).
Mmh, not sure about what you mean by hosted compiler, but there is certainly a native compiler package for Win64: mingw-w64-bin_x86_64-mingw_20100322_sezero.zip It comes with gcc, g++ and gfortran 4.4.4. gdb support is also there. So it seems like a pretty complete toolset for windows amd64. With it, and with some fixes in numpy sources (very few), I achieved to pass the build phase. I can provide the patch in case someone is interested. The generated extensions are: 24/03/2010 19:34 1.492.313 multiarray.pyd 24/03/2010 19:34 124.866 multiarray_tests.pyd 24/03/2010 19:34 453.377 scalarmath.pyd 24/03/2010 19:34 1.079.827 umath.pyd 24/03/2010 19:34 121.651 umath_tests.pyd 24/03/2010 19:34 304.014 _sort.pyd which looks good to my eyes. Now, when I try to generate the installable package I'm in trouble again: $ python setup.py bdist [...] File "C: \Users\francesc\Desktop\NumPy\1.4.x\numpy\distutils\command\config.py" , line 56, in _check_compiler self.compiler.initialize() File "C:\Python26_64\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 359, in initialize vc_env = query_vcvarsall(VERSION, plat_spec) File "C:\Python26_64\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 275, in query_vcvar sall raise ValueError(str(list(result.keys()))) ValueError: [u'path'] [...] So, it looks like either numpy or python cannot determine that the used compiler is mingw instead of msvc9. However, when I try to specify mingw explicitly, I get the next error: $ python setup.py bdist --compiler=mingw32 Running from numpy source directory. Forcing DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1 usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help error: option --compiler not recognized Someone could tell me why distutils can be told to use mingw32 compiler for the build stage but not for bdist? What is more, why the need for a compiler for bdist if numpy is already built? I feel that I'm almost there, but some piece still resists... -- Francesc Alted