On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Fernando Perez<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, David Cournapeau<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Fernando >>> Perez<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> By the way, David did this on a wine setup he has on his Mac laptop in >>>> just a couple of minutes! So it seems that once you have the right >>>> setup, it's not a huge deal. >>> >>> It is quite easy to set up: you can install wine for mac os x >>> (darwine), install python + mingw into wine, and that's it. >>> >>> I have for example an alist winepy="WINEPATH >>> $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Python25/python.exe", and then making the binary >>> is just an issue of: >>> >>> winepy setup.py bdist_wininst >>> >>> Numpy and scipy binaries are actually entirely built under wine as >>> well nowadays, it is a viable alternative to the endless windows pain. >> >> I should add that Stefan vdW pointed out to me that the detailed >> tutorial on how to set this wine machinery lives in fact on the Cython >> wiki :) >> >> http://wiki.cython.org/BuildingWindowsInstaller >> >> I did it a few days ago, and I can now build a Cython installer in no time >> flat: >> >> maqroll[Cython-0.11.2]> uname -a >> Linux maqroll 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 18:40:08 UTC >> 2009 i686 GNU/Linux >> maqroll[Cython-0.11.2]> time wine python setup.py bdist_wininst >> Compiling module Cython.Plex.Scanners ... >> Compiling module Cython.Compiler.Scanning ... >> Compiling module Cython.Compiler.Parsing ... >> Compiling module Cython.Compiler.Visitor ... >> Compiling module Cython.Runtime.refnanny ... >> running bdist_wininst >> >> [... snip long output ] >> >> adding 'PLATLIB\pyximport\pyxbuild.py' >> adding 'SCRIPTS\cython.py' >> creating dist >> removing 'build\bdist.win32\wininst' (and everything under it) >> >> real 0m20.775s >> user 0m5.764s >> sys 0m0.500s >> >> This is really great: the setup takes a few minutes, and now I don't >> even have to fire up VirtualBox and spend any time in the godforsaken >> hell that is Windows to build installers for code with C extensions! > > There is no reason for this language, there are a lot of us who like > Windows, and if you look at the numpy/scipy mailinglist then the only > build issues are with the hundreds of versions of unix/linux.
There are no build issues on windows because nobody builds it, and because some people in numpy/scipy waste days if not weeks working on windows specificities. David _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
