[Numpy-discussion] MKL and OpenBLAS

[Sturla Molden]

On 27/01/14 12:01, Carl Kleffner wrote:
> Did you consider to check the experimental binaries on
> https://code.google.com/p/mingw-w64-static/ for Python-2.7? These
> binaries has been build with with a customized mingw-w64 toolchain.
> These builds are fully statically build and are link against the MSVC90
> runtime libraries (gcc runtime is linked statically) and OpenBLAS.
>
> Carl

Building OpenBLAS and LAPACK is very easy. I used TDM-GCC for Win64.
It's just two makefile (not even a configure script). OpenBLAS and 
LAPACK are probably the easiest libraries to build there is.

The main problem for using OpenBLAS with NumPy and SciPy on Windows is 
that Python 2.7 from www.python.org does not ship with libpython27.a for 
64-bit Python, so we need to maintain our own. Also, GNU compilers are 
required to build OpenBLAS. This means we have to build our own 
libgfortran as well. The binary is incompatible with the MSVC runtime we 
use. I.e. not impossible, but painful.

http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2012-August/063740.html


Sturla