David Cournapeau wrote:
Michael Abshoff wrote:
Hi David,
Sure, but there isn't even a 32 bit gcc out there that can produce 64 bit PE binaries (aside from the MinGW fork that AFAIK does not work particularly well and allegedly has issues with the cleanliness of some of the code which is allegedly the reason that the official MinGW people will not touch the code base) .
The biggest problem is that officially, there is still no gcc 4 release for mingw. I saw a gcc 4 section in cygwin, though, so maybe it is about to be released. There is no support at all for 64 bits PE in the 3 serie.
Yes, you are correct and I was wrong. I just checked out the mingw-64 project and there has been a lot of activity the last couple month, including a patch to build pthread-win32 in 64 bit mode.
I think binutils officially support 64 bits PE (I can build a linux hosted binutils for 64 bits PE with x86_64-pc-mingw32 as a target, and it seems to work: disassembling and co). gcc 4 can work, too (you can build a bootstrap C compiler which targets windows 64 bits IICR). The biggest problem AFAICS is the runtime (mingw64, which is indeed legally murky).
I would really like to find the actual reason *why* the legal status of the 64 bit MinGW port is murky (To my knowledge it has to do with taking code from the MS Platform toolkit - but that is conjecture), so I guess I will do the obvious thing and ask on the MinGW list :)
Ok, that is a concern I usually do not have since I tend to build my own Python :).
I would say that if you can build python by yourself on windows, you can certainly build numpy by yourself :) It took me quite a time to be able to build python on windows by myself from scratch.
Sure, I do see your point. Accidentally someone posted about http://debian-interix.net/ on the sage-windows list today. It offers a gcc 4.2 toolchain and AFAIK there is at least a patch set for ATLAS to make it work on Interix.
cheers,
David
Cheers, Michael
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