Travis Oliphant wrote:

If you don't care about using "vendor-specific math libraries" then it's as easy as

python setup.py install

on linux and aix (it's also that easy on Windows if you have the right compiler and/or configuration file set up).

If you care about vendor specific libraries, then you have to either put them in a "known" place or write a site.cfg file. (We should document where the "known" places are...)

The installation process uses distutils and so information about distutils that you can glean from other places is also relevant.

Ask on the mailing list for more specifics.

Ok, here goes ;-) First of all, when installing on windows-x86 using msvc7.1 and python-2.5, the build of numpy crashes because it was looking for python25.lib and was looking in the lib directory of the python installation. However, I compiled python-2.5 using the solution-file that comes with it and this one generated the python25.lib file in the pcbuild subdirectory (and does not copy it to the lib directory). After copying it manually, the build worked. However when trying to use vendor specific libraries, I run into trouble. First of all, on linux-x86 I think I have set it up right but how do I verify this? I have the same problem as mentioned in: http://projects.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2007-February/026130.ht... I also found numpy.__config__.show() but this does not show any tuned lapack library although I had one in my site.cfg. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance, Toon F2PY Version 2_3473 blas_opt_info: blas_mkl_info: libraries mkl,vml,guide not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries mkl,vml,guide not found in C:\ NOT AVAILABLE atlas_blas_threads_info: Setting PTATLAS=ATLAS libraries ptf77blas,ptcblas,atlas not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries ptf77blas,ptcblas,atlas not found in C:\ NOT AVAILABLE atlas_blas_info: libraries f77blas,cblas,atlas not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries f77blas,cblas,atlas not found in C:\ NOT AVAILABLE blas_info: libraries blas not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries blas not found in C:\ NOT AVAILABLE blas_src_info: NOT AVAILABLE NOT AVAILABLE lapack_opt_info: lapack_mkl_info: mkl_info: libraries mkl,vml,guide not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries mkl,vml,guide not found in C:\ NOT AVAILABLE NOT AVAILABLE atlas_threads_info: Setting PTATLAS=ATLAS libraries ptf77blas,ptcblas,atlas not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries lapack_atlas not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries ptf77blas,ptcblas,atlas not found in C:\ libraries lapack_atlas not found in C:\ numpy.distutils.system_info.atlas_threads_info NOT AVAILABLE atlas_info: libraries f77blas,cblas,atlas not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries lapack_atlas not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries f77blas,cblas,atlas not found in C:\ libraries lapack_atlas not found in C:\ numpy.distutils.system_info.atlas_info NOT AVAILABLE lapack_info: libraries lapack not found in C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib libraries lapack not found in C:\ NOT AVAILABLE lapack_src_info: NOT AVAILABLE NOT AVAILABLE running build running config_fc running build_src building py_modules sources creating build creating build\src.win32-2.5 creating build\src.win32-2.5\numpy creating build\src.win32-2.5\numpy\distutils building extension "numpy.core.multiarray" sources creating build\src.win32-2.5\numpy\core Generating build\src.win32-2.5\numpy\core\config.h No module named msvccompiler in numpy.distutils, trying from distutils.. 0 1 Could not locate executable g77 Could not locate executable f77 Could not locate executable gfortran Could not locate executable f95 customize GnuFCompiler Could not locate executable f77 Executable f77 does not exist Running from numpy source directory. C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\system_info.py:1301: UserWarning: Atlas (http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/) libraries not found. Directories to search for the libraries can be specified in the numpy/distutils/site.cfg file (section [atlas]) or by setting the ATLAS environment variable. warnings.warn(AtlasNotFoundError.__doc__) C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\system_info.py:1310: UserWarning: Blas (http://www.netlib.org/blas/) libraries not found. Directories to search for the libraries can be specified in the numpy/distutils/site.cfg file (section [blas]) or by setting the BLAS environment variable. warnings.warn(BlasNotFoundError.__doc__) C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\system_info.py:1313: UserWarning: Blas (http://www.netlib.org/blas/) sources not found. Directories to search for the sources can be specified in the numpy/distutils/site.cfg file (section [blas_src]) or by setting the BLAS_SRC environment variable. warnings.warn(BlasSrcNotFoundError.__doc__) C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\system_info.py:1210: UserWarning: Atlas (http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/) libraries not found. Directories to search for the libraries can be specified in the numpy/distutils/site.cfg file (section [atlas]) or by setting the ATLAS environment variable. warnings.warn(AtlasNotFoundError.__doc__) C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\system_info.py:1221: UserWarning: Lapack (http://www.netlib.org/lapack/) libraries not found. Directories to search for the libraries can be specified in the numpy/distutils/site.cfg file (section [lapack]) or by setting the LAPACK environment variable. warnings.warn(LapackNotFoundError.__doc__) C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\system_info.py:1224: UserWarning: Lapack (http://www.netlib.org/lapack/) sources not found. Directories to search for the sources can be specified in the numpy/distutils/site.cfg file (section [lapack_src]) or by setting the LAPACK_SRC environment variable. warnings.warn(LapackSrcNotFoundError.__doc__) Could not locate executable f77 Executable f77 does not exist Could not locate executable f77 Executable f77 does not exist Non-ASCII character '\xa0' in file C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\fcompiler\intel.py on line 82, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details (intel.py, line 82) customize AbsoftFCompiler customize CompaqVisualFCompiler Non-ASCII character '\xa0' in file C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\fcompiler\intel.py on line 82, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details (intel.py, line 82) customize Gnu95FCompiler Could not locate executable f95 Executable f95 does not exist Could not locate executable f95 Executable f95 does not exist Could not locate executable f95 Executable f95 does not exist customize G95FCompiler Could not locate executable g95 Executable g95 does not exist customize GnuFCompiler Could not locate executable f77 Executable f77 does not exist Could not locate executable f77 Executable f77 does not exist Could not locate executable f77 Executable f77 does not exist customize Gnu95FCompiler Could not locate executable f95 Executable f95 does not exist Could not locate executable f95 Executable f95 does not exist Could not locate executable f95 Executable f95 does not exist customize GnuFCompiler Could not locate executable f77 Executable f77 does not exist Could not locate executable f77 Executable f77 does not exist Could not locate executable f77 Executable f77 does not exist customize GnuFCompiler using config C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GX /DNDEBUG -IC:\fft\external\python-2.5\include -Inumpy\core\src -Inumpy\core\include -IC:\fft\external\python-2.5\include -IC:\fft\external\python-2.5\PC /Tc_configtest.c /Fo_configtest.obj C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\link.exe /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO /LIBPATH:C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib /LIBPATH:C:\ _configtest.obj /OUT:_configtest.exe LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'python25.lib' failure. removing: _configtest.c _configtest.obj numpy\core\setup.py:50: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated raise "ERROR: Failed to test configuration" Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 89, in <module> setup_package() File "setup.py", line 82, in setup_package configuration=configuration ) File "C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\core.py", line 174, in setup return old_setup(**new_attr) File "C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup dist.run_commands() File "C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 112, in run self.run_command(cmd_name) File "C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File "C:\fft\external\python-2.5\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\command\build_src.py", line 87, in run self.build_sources() File "C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\command\build_src.py", line 106, in build_sources self.build_extension_sources(ext) File "C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\command\build_src.py", line 212, in build_extension_sources sources = self.generate_sources(sources, ext) File "C:\fft\external\numpy-1.0.1\numpy\distutils\command\build_src.py", line 270, in generate_sources source = func(extension, build_dir) File "numpy\core\setup.py", line 50, in generate_config_h raise "ERROR: Failed to test configuration" ERROR: Failed to test configuration