On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 January 2014 22:50, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> i.e. it would be nice if anyone setup to build C extensions could "just > >> build numpy". > > > > This has always been possible, and if not, that's certainly considered > as a > > bug (I would be eager to fix). > > I don't know if you saw my comment earlier in this thread: > > > A quick test later: > > No BLAS/ATLAS/LAPACK causes a string of warnings, And ignoring the > > rest of the error stack (which I'm frankly not interested in investing > > the time to diagnose and fix) I get "RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: > > cannot link a simple C program". Which is utter rubbish - I routinely > > build extensions with this installation. > > This is a straight "pip install numpy" run in a virtualenv on Windows > 7 64-bit with MSVC 2010 (full edition) installed. which version of python ? For 2.x, it is expected to fail at that point, since you can't build C extensions with something different than 2008 (with python.org builds). For 3.3, it means there is a bug that needs to be fixed. David
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