[Numpy-discussion] 64bit infrastructure

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Travis Oliphant <travis at continuum.io> wrote:
>>>> I'm actually not sure, why.   I think the issue is making sure that the release manager can actually "build" NumPy without having to buy a particular compiler.
>>>
>>> The MS Express editions, while not open source, are free-to-use, and work fine.
>>>
>>> Not sure what what do about Fortran, though, but that's a scipy, not a
>>> numpy issue, yes?
>>
>> fortran is the issue. Having one or two licenses of say Intel Fortran
>> compiler is not enough because it makes it difficult for people to
>> build on top of scipy.
>
> There seems to be a 64-bit version of mingw -- I assume this runs into
> the same issue that numpy has with new versions of 32-bit mingw? Would
> it work if that issue were fixed?

It does have the same issue IIRC, but there was also the issue that
scipy built with mingw-w64 did not work at all at that time. Could be
different today, I have not looked into it for quite a while now.

David