[Spglib-users] Installing python-spglib on Windows

[Nicholas F. <nf...@gm...>]

Greetings,

I ran into some installation trouble but don't know whether to call it
an issue with the code. Can anyone advise whether I need to adjust
configuration on my machine, or report an issue to spglib, or to
setuptools, etc?

I run 32 bit Python 3.5 on Windows and have Numpy1.11+MKL installed
from a pre-built wheel. I cloned the spglib repository from github and
ran
python setup.py install
Watching in the log, all the .obj files compiled. However, the linker
failed, and the output shows that build_ext issued a command that does
not quote the paths of the library files. Since I have paths with
spaces in my installation, the automatic link command fails unless I
manually fix it. I have seen that within distutils and numpy, LIBPATH
quoting was identified and fixed long ago:
http://bugs.python.org/issue13765
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/5765

Thanks for the useful library.
Best regards,
Nicholas Fette

P.S. Excerpts from install output:
setuptools is used.
running install
...
running build_py
running build_ext
No module named 'numpy.distutils._msvccompiler' in numpy.distutils;
trying from distutils
building 'spglib._spglib' extension
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe ...
Found executable C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
14.0\VC\BIN\link.exe
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'Files.obj'
error: Command "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
14.0\VC\BIN\link.exe /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO /LTCG /DLL
/MANIFEST:EMBED,ID=2 /MANIFESTUAC:NO /LIBPATH:C:\Program Files
(x86)\Python35-32\libs /LIBPATH:C:\Program Files
(x86)\Python35-32\PCbuild\win32 ..." failed with exit status 1181