[Moved conversation to mailing list] Hey, guys I guess we don't have many Windows developers or users (since there haven't been any bug reports regarding this build problem so far!). The scikit should work perfectly well under Windows, but clearly we'll have to adjust the Cython builder. Christoph, do you know of a way to programmatically call Cython, instead of running the executable? Regards Stéfan 2011/1/12 Johannes Radinger <JRadinger@gmx.at>: [...]

and here is what Christoph Gohlke from the cython(windows implementation) team answered:

Hi,

recent versions of scikit.image do not work well on Windows. I guess all development is done on Unix compatible systems.

The cython for Windows installers do not include a executable named 'cython'. There is a cython.py script in the Python\Scripts folder. You can make a cython.cmd file containing '''C:\Python26\python.exe -c "from Cython.Compiler.Main import main; main(command_line = 1)" %*''' and put it in the Windows search path. That might work for scikit.image. If not, just use that script to manually cythonize the scikit source and remove the cython calls from the setup.py files.

You will probably need to adjust more things, e.g. library names, to make scikit.image work on Windows.

Christoph