[Pysparse-developers] Compiling pysparse for Windows

[Roman G. <rom...@gm...>]

Hello

Triggered by a recent email on the pysparse-users list I tried to 
compile pysparse 1.1 for Windows and Python 2.6.

I used Visual C++ (Express Edition) and the latest ACML for BLAS and 
LAPACK (both are available for free).

Except for the superlu package (which I skipped) only a few changes to 
the source code were necessary (mostly due to the lack of C99 support in 
the MS C compiler) to build the modules.

Unfortunately one of the unit tests in spmatrix_test failed, but 
basically it seemed to work. (Later I saw that the same unit test also 
fails on Linux, so it might be a general problem.)

I have two questions:

Do you know of anybody who has successfully built pysparse using Visual 
C++ recently?

Do you think it would be desirable to be able to build using Visual C++ 
or is build process using MinGW straight-forward and sufficient?

Best regards,
Roman