On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi David and all, > > I have a few questions on setting up the build environment on OS X for > Windows binaries. I have Wine installed with Python 2.5 and 2.6, MakeNsis > and MinGW. The first question is what is meant in the Paver script by "cpuid > plugin". Wine seems to know what to do with a cpuid instruction, but I can > not find a plugin. Searching for "cpuid plugin" turns up nothing except the > NumPy pavement.py file. What is this?
That's a small NSIS plugin to detect at install time the exact capabilities of the CPU (SSE2, SSE3, etc...). The sources are found in tools/win32build/cpucaps, and should be built with mingw (Visual Studio is not supported, it uses gcc-specific inline assembly). You then copy the dll into the plugin directory of nsis. > Second question is about Fortran. It's needed for SciPy at least, so I may > as well get it right now. MinGW only comes with g77, and this page: > http://www.scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Windows says that this is the default > compiler. So Fortran 77 on Windows and Fortran 95 on OS X as defaults, is > that right? No need for g95/gfortran at all? gc 4.x is still not officially supported by MinGW. Gfortran is incompatible with g77, so care should be taken if we change it for NumPy (every extension using f2py will likely be broken as a result on windows). Gfortran is the only option on win64, so I was thinking about making the transition to gfortran once we manage to build Numpy and Scipy with it on win64. > Final question is about Atlas and friends. Is 3.8.3 the best version to > install? Does it compile out of the box under Wine? Is this page > http://www.scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Windows still up-to-date with regard > to the Lapack/Atlas info and does it apply for Wine? Atlas 3.9.x should not be used, it is too unstable IMO (it is a dev version after all, and windows receives little testing compared to unix). I will put the Atlas binaries I am using somewhere - building Atlas is already painful, but building it with a limited architecture on windows takes it to a whole new level (it is not supported by atlas, you have to patch the build system by yourself). cheers, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
