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
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