Gael Varoquaux wrote: > > I was just wondering, could we ask Microsoft for some help here. A build > bot, or a Windows 64 license... They are helping porting the SAGE project > to windows, so they do have interest in getting open source scientific > software working on windows. >
Windows 64 is actually the easiest problem: you can find free trial license for Windows server 2008 on MS website. The main problem is the compiler and BLAS/LAPACK: mingw cannot target 64 bits yet (there is a mingw-w64 project, but after some digging, I found out that it was legally dubious, hence not integrated yet in the 'real' mingw project). Now, you could think about using MS compiler, but I don't like the idea very much, and there is the problem of blas/lapack. cygwin, already slow, is dog slow on windows 64 (because it runs in 32 bits, I guess ?), and is needed to build atlas (blas and lapack too, but it is at least theoretically possible to build them without makefiles; atlas build system is so complicated that it makes autotools feel extremely enjoyable). cheers, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
