Re: [openbabel-scripting] Windows scripting

[Noel O'B. <no...@ca...>]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 14:14 -0500, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> 
> > (1) Is Python scripting for Openbabel available in Windows somehow?
> 
> I don't have a Windows box to test. I'm also not sure how it would  
> link against the Windows OpenBabel DLLs.

Could I put this on someone's things to do list (i.e. to get the SWIG
interface to OpenBabel working for Python)?

I use Windows at home, so if I want to develop the Python interface to a
decent level, I probably need to have python scripting set up for
Windows. Apparently, I can get access to the MSVC++ compiler here, but
not knowing anything about C++ I am not sure whether I will be able to
get it all to work.

> > (2) Is it necessary to compile?
> 
> Well, I believe you can get DLLs either from the Open Babel windows  
> download or from Chris Morley. Certainly you *can* compile on Windows.
> 
> > (3) What's the current status of Cygwin/OpenBabel compilation?
> 
> So-so. I know the problem, but haven't had the time to fix it or test  
> it.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Geoff