On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Sturla Molden<[email protected]> wrote: > David Cournapeau skrev: >> I agree - mingw is easy to install, but the mingw webpage is awful, >> and the download link almost hidden in their main page. >> >> > I tend to like the binary installer from Equation.com better (currently > GCC 4.4.1): > > http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?call=fortran > > gfortran's wiki also has binary installers for Windows (GCC 4.5.x), but > it does not include C++. > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries > > MSYS from MinGW is nice if you need to run configure scripts. > > But getting all the right packages from MinGW's sourceforge site a > nightmare. They have also made sure that all packages are gzipped > tarballs, not zip-files that Windows undertands natively. So to install > you first have to find a way to unpack the tarballs (e.g. pay for > WinZip), which can be a challenge on Windows.
For the official version, MingW has an installer script to pick the individual pieces and update them in one run, although they are cautious and slow with the official updates. For archive files, I use either WinRar or 7zip, and I haven't yet found an archive type that I couldn't open. (I also turned off automatic/native zip support in Windows, to avoid long searches in archive files.) Josef > > No... use the binary from Equation.com instead. You get C, C++ and > Fortran compilers installed without any hassle. > > Sturla Molden > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cython-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev > _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
