Hi,

While building numpy in wine, I got some errors in distutils when initializing the fortran compilers. I build numpy with:

wine python setup.py build -c mingw32 --fcompiler=gnu95

And I got an error in load_all_fcompiler_classes when it tries to load the Compaq visual compiler. I don't think it has anything to do with wine, but rather that in python 2.6, running MSVCCompiler().initialize() can raise an IOError (python 2.6 uses a new method to lookd for msvc compilers, based on the existence of a bat file, which I don't have on my wine installation; I can check this on Windows, but that would be ackward since I would need to uninstall visual studio first...). I could catch the exception in the CompaqVisualCompiler, but I don't understand why this class is loaded at all. It also explains a warning I never quite understand before about "one should fix me in fcompiler/compaq.py" on windows whereas I have never used this compiler.

Is this something we should "fix" ? Or just let alone to avoid breaking anything ?

cheers,

David