[Distutils] pip on windows experience

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 January 2014 09:12, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 29 January 2014 22:50, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> i.e. it would be nice if anyone setup to build C extensions could
> "just
> >> >> build numpy".
> >> >
> >> > This has always been possible, and if not, that's certainly considered
> >> > as a
> >> > bug (I would be eager to fix).
> >>
> >> I don't know if you saw my comment earlier in this thread:
> >>
> >> > A quick test later:
> >> > No BLAS/ATLAS/LAPACK causes a string of warnings, And ignoring the
> >> > rest of the error stack (which I'm frankly not interested in investing
> >> > the time to diagnose and fix) I get "RuntimeError: Broken toolchain:
> >> > cannot link a simple C program". Which is utter rubbish - I routinely
> >> > build extensions with this installation.
> >>
> >> This is a straight "pip install numpy" run in a virtualenv on Windows
> >> 7 64-bit with MSVC 2010 (full edition) installed.
> >
> >
> > which version of python ?
> >
> > For 2.x, it is expected to fail at that point, since you can't build C
> > extensions with something different than 2008 (with python.org builds).
> >
> > For 3.3, it means there is a bug that needs to be fixed.
>
> Doh. Sorry, I knew I'd forget something. 3.3.
>

Here we go: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/4245

David

> Paul
>
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