Re: [Pysparse-developers] Compiling pysparse for Windows

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

Hi Daniel

Yes, by all means go ahead with pythonxy.

I'll try to get a robust Win32 build using Visual C++. I'll let you know 
if I succeed.

Regards,
Roman

On 27.01.2010 15:59, Daniel Wheeler wrote:
> Hi Roman, I have been using pythonxy as the basis for building
> pysparse on windows (switched from enthought, which now has a weird
> license). I have also been using some very old compiled versions of
> blas and artlas that I really should update. I ran into some problems
> upgrading pythonxy to the python 2.6 version so haven't been able to
> make a release as yet. I recently installed windows 7 in virtualbox
> and I hope to do a clean install of the lastest pythonxy ASAP. As far
> as visual c++ is concerned, I have never tried it. I suppose it
> doesn't matter what the build process is as long as it works, but I
> would rather use the open source tools were available. If you would
> like to do it, by all means, but I'll try with pythonxy in the mean
> time. Cheers.
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Roman Geus<rom...@gm...>  wrote:
>    
>> 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
>>
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