Hi all, Yesterday, I had to build a Cython extension for a colleague using Windows, so here are the steps required:
1. Install Wine (on OSX I used http://www.macports.org/) 2. Install Python 2.5 from the http://www.python.org .exe 3. Install mingw from http://www.mingw.org/. Install the base system and g++. 4. Start the registry editor (wine regedit) and setup the system path: - Search for Environment and find the PATH key - Append to it c:\python25;c:\mingw\bin;c:\python25\scripts - Add a new key called "HOME" and set it to c:\windows\profiles\yourusername 5. Create a new file in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/yourusername/ called pydistutils.cfg that contains [build] compiler=mingw32 This tells distutils not to look for MSVC7, but to use mingw as the default compiler. 6. Install setuptools (not necessary, but convenient if you want to install any other packages). Get the .tar.gz from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools. Unpack. wine python setup.py install 7. Install Cython (either from source as in 6 or using `easy_install cython`) 8. Compile you extension (from your package source directory): python setup.py bdist_wininst This will only work if you have a setup.py file, similar to the one in http://dip.sun.ac.za/~stefan/code/cython_demo.git This step should then generate a .exe in the dist/ directory. If your package requires NumPy to work, you'll have to install that prior to step 8, by 1. Extracting the numpy source tree 2. python setup.py build -c mingw32 3. python setup.py install --skip-build I hope someone else finds this recipe useful! Regards Stéfan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list Cython-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
