Hi,<br><br>You can check on mingw, but also the Visual C++ Express edition (although it is not open source, but I don&#39;t see why it should be).<br>To write a module, you can check ctypes (and there is a tutorial in the scipy&#39;s cookbook ;))<br>
<br>Matthieu<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/3/7, Nuttall, Brandon C &lt;<a href="mailto:bnuttall@uky.edu">bnuttall@uky.edu</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">









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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Folks,</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I may be asked to help
port an application written in C that runs on Macs to run on a Windows-based
PC. I have two questions:</span></font></p>

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<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span>1)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></font></span></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Does anyone have recommendations for a
free, open source C compiler for Windows?</span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span>2)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></font></span></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Is there a step-by-step guide or tutorial
for writing a Python module to act as a wrapper for the C code?</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Thanks.</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Brandon Nuttall</span></font></p>

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