Re: [python-control-discuss] windows no slycot

[Ryan K. <kra...@gv...>]

I tried

conda update conda
conda install slycot

and received a PackageNotFoundError

Do I need to somehow enable a super recent version of Anaconda?

The update supposedly put me at 4.3.27.


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Dr. Ryan Krauss
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Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering
Grand Valley State University

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:46 AM, Rene van Paassen <ren...@gm...
> wrote:

> Would it be an option to use anaconda? Then you can try the slycot I built
> for anaconda just Monday (finally pulled this one off).
>
> The problem is deeper than just mingw; the later lapack versions
> deprecated some functions; you need lapack (at least that is the only
> option I have seen binary versions for Windows for), and an updated Slycot
> to handle the incompatibilities
>
> Another option is Christoph Gohlke's python extension packages; that would
> work for a regular Windows python http://www.lfd.uci.edu/
> ~gohlke/pythonlibs/
>
> Without slycot you are mainly limited in state-space work, and I think it
> would be annoying to work around that in a course.
>
> Success,
>
> René
>
> Op di 10 okt. 2017 om 18:06 schreef Ryan Krauss <rya...@gm...>:
>
>> I am not sure if this is still the official mailing list for
>> python-control or not....
>>
>> I am also resending this from what I think is my membership email for
>> this list.
>>
>> I am getting ready to introduce state-space to an introductory (junior
>> level) dynamic systms and control course.  We really only need the basics
>> (probably just step and forced response).  Most of my students use windows
>> and most of them are not great with computers.  I just tried to do "pip
>> install slycot" in a windows virtual machine and received an error message
>> about the lack of fortran compiler.  I can work on that, but I am pretty
>> sure most of them can't handle MinGW.
>>
>> So, my main question is this: what will and what will not work without
>> slycot for state-space simulations in python-control?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ryan
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