On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, After much frustration and disabling my antivirus software (McAfee), I was able to get the 'import numpy' to work and tests to pass as expected. Of course after turning it back on and restarting the IDLE gui a few times, the 'import numpy' crashes. This also happens on the command line.
Hm, let's assume this is a problem of the anti virus software, and not from mingw :) One way to test this would be to see if a binary built with VS 2008 would cause the same trouble.
This is clearly related to the antivirus software because enabling or disabling the 'on-access scan' is usually sufficient to failure import failure or success, respectively. Perhaps some thing to do with MinGW on Vista?
Do you have this problem only with numpy ? I noticed those kind of crashes (right at import time) on my server 2008, but I really could not understand what was wrong - it crashes half of the time, and when it does not, it works perfectly (I could run the test suite 10 times without crash). Maybe some file-related failures and runtimes incompatibilities. There are so many combinations on windows which can influence this that I am perfectly fine with saying that Windows + AV is not supported:) David