[AstroPy] pywcs 1.10-4.7 install failure on Microsoft Windows

[Michael Droettboom]

Ok.  I'm in the process of getting a Visual Studio environment set up 
here and will let you know what I discover.

Mike

On 01/03/2012 12:54 PM, Jim Vickroy wrote:
> On 1/3/2012 10:22 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>> Hmm...  Do you have any luck if you remove this from defsetup.py?
>>
>> if sys.platform in ('win32', 'cygwin'):
>>        h_file.write("""
>> #define wcsset wcsset_
>> """)
>>
>> Mike
> Unfortunately, the same error trace occurs if the above line is
> removed.  -- jv
>
>
>> On 01/03/2012 11:32 AM, Jim Vickroy wrote:
>>> On 1/3/2012 8:30 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>>>> On 01/03/2012 09:21 AM, Jim Vickroy wrote:
>>>>> On 1/3/2012 6:33 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>>>>>> My apologies that this isn't working for you -- I don't have access to
>>>>>> Visual Studio 9.0 to test with, so these sorts of things can fall
>>>>>> through the cracks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark is right that the old solution involved patching wcslib before
>>>>>> shipping it with pywcs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, as of version 1.10 (which you are using), the solution was to add:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>           #define wcsset wcsset_
>>>>>>
>>>>>> on Windows.  This works with the mingw32/cygwin compiler, but apparently
>>>>>> failing on the Microsoft compiler.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is an even newer solution in pywcs SVN which defines the following
>>>>>> on Windows.  This I believe to work on the Microsoft compilers based on
>>>>>> the report of another user:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if sys.platform == 'win32':
>>>>>>            define_macros.append(('YY_NO_UNISTD_H', None))
>>>>>>            define_macros.append(('_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS', None))
>>>>>>            define_macros.append(('_NO_OLDNAMES', None)) # for mingw32
>>>>>>            define_macros.append(('NO_OLDNAMES', None)) # for mingw64
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can either splice this into your current copy of setup.py, or build
>>>>>> from SVN.  Note that building from SVN currently requires having parts
>>>>>> of stsci_python installed (notable stsci.tools.stsci_distutils_hack).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike
>>>>> Thanks, Mike.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you elaborate on the above patch?  Do I need to import something
>>>>> other than sys?  Where is define_macros defined?
>>>> Of course -- first day back and I'm whipping through e-mail too quickly ;)
>>>>
>>>> This goes in defsetup.py -- there is already an "if sys.platform ==
>>>> 'win32'" clause -- you would just need to add the "OLDNAMES" lines to it.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
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>>> I added the OLDNAMES lines as above and here is the result:
>>>
>>> C:\Projects\pywcs-1.10-4.7>setup.py install
>>> running install
>>> running build
>>> running build_py
>>> copying lib\svn_version.py ->    build\lib.win32-2.6\pywcs
>>> running build_ext
>>> building 'pywcs._pywcs' extension
>>> c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe /c /nologo
>>> /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -DECHO -DWCSTRIG_MACRO -DPYWCS_BUILD
>>> -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -DYY_NO_UNISTD_H -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
>>> -D_NO_OLDNAMES -DNO_OLDNAMES -U
>>> DEBUG -IC:\Python26\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include -I.\wcslib\C
>>> -Iwcslib\C -I.\src -IC:\Python26\include -IC:\Python26\PC
>>> /Tcwcslib\C\flexed/wcsbth.c
>>> /Fobuild\temp.win32-2.6\Release\wcslib\C\flexed/wcsbth.obj
>>> wcsbth.c
>>> .\wcslib\C\wcs.h(1396) : warning C4030: first formal parameter list
>>> longer than the second list
>>> .\wcslib\C\wcs.h(1396) : warning C4028: formal parameter 1 different
>>> from declaration
>>> .\wcslib\C\wcs.h(1396) : error C2040: 'wcsset' : 'int (wcsprm *)'
>>> differs in levels of indirection from 'int (wcsprm *)'
>>> error: command '"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>> 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe"' failed with exit status 2
>>>
>>> C:\Projects\pywcs-1.10-4.7>
>>>
>>>
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