Dear Arvind, You can always give a try to one of the linux distributions. Even if you don't want to install it on your hard drive. Simply obtain a VirtualBox and have a Ubuntu or other distro installed as a virtual machine. If you need any help with that I will be more than happy to answer your questions.
Dariusz Kedzierski > As a fellow Windows user I think I recognize what is going on. I > encountered the same thing when trying to set up FiPy 2.1. I got my > Windows setup to work by using the basic Python 2.5 (instead of > enthought or PythonXY) and installing the python2.5 binaries for: > Numpy 1.4.1 > Scipy 0.7.2 > Pysparse 1.1 > FiPy 2.1 > in that order. > > Good luck. > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Daniel Wheeler > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Arvind, I am sorry to say that pysparse is having issues on Windows >> with python 2.6. You can check this by doing "from pysparse import >> precon" at the command line. It should give the same error. currently, >> I have been unable to do a pysparse build that I can successfully >> import using python 2.6 (pythonxy). Someone else put the binary on >> sourceforge and I'm not sure what package of python 2.6 (pythonxy, >> ehnthought ot just standard python) they used to build with, but it >> doesn't work for me either. It could be an issue with pythonxy, so my >> next attempt may be to try building pysparse using enthought. >> Unfortunately, fipy is useless without pysparse. Sorry for the bad >> news. >> >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Arvind Ajoy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I am trying to install Fipy-2.1 on a Windows XP system. Following the >>> manual, I have >>> installed Python(x,y)-2.6.5.1, pysparse-1.1_rc1.win32-py2.6, and >>> gmsh-2.4.2. No errors >>> are reported when I run the installer for Fipy-2.1 . >>> >>> However, from the base FiPy directory, when I do the following with >>> ipyhton, I get the following ... >>> >>> In [1]: run setup.py test >>> running test >>> running egg_info >>> writing FiPy.egg-info\PKG-INFO >>> writing top-level names to FiPy.egg-info\top_level.txt >>> writing dependency_links to FiPy.egg-info\dependency_links.txt >>> writing entry points to FiPy.egg-info\entry_points.txt >>> reading manifest file 'FiPy.egg-info\SOURCES.txt' >>> writing manifest file 'FiPy.egg-info\SOURCES.txt' >>> running build_ext >>> >>> Python then crashes with the following message "python.exe has >>> encountered a problem and >>> needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." >>> >>> Additionally, the same error occurs when i try >>> >>> In [1]: from fipy import * >>> >>> I have looked through the archives, but did not find any solutions to >>> this error. >>> >>> I would appreciate any help! >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Arvind Ajoy >>> PhD Student, Electrical Engineering >>> Indian Institute of Technology Madras >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> python.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry >>> for the inconvenience. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Daniel Wheeler >> >> >>
