On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Christoph Gohlke <cgoh...@uci.edu> wrote: > On 2/4/2013 12:59 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.cer...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:57 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:28 AM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I see there is no Windows 64 bit installer for the 1.7 rc1. >>>>> >>>>> related: >>>>> Is there any chance to get newer mingw or mingw-w64 support "soonish"? >>>> >>>> The problem has no solution until we can restrict support to windows 7 >>>> and above. Otherwise, any acceptable solution would require user to be >>>> an admin. >>> >>> The installer is built with this VM/scripts: >> >> I am not sure whether you're replying to my observation or just giving >> a status update: with mingw-w64 (or recent mingw), the built installer
I was just giving a general status, sorry about not being clear. >> will depend on several .dll (libgcc_s_sjil.dll) that we can't easily >> distribute. The only place we can realistically put them is in >> C:\Python$VERSION (or wherever python happens to be installed), and I >> think it is a very bad idea to install dll from NumPy there. In >> Windows 2008 and above, one can refer in .pyd where to look for dlls >> in another directory which is private to numpy. Yes. >> >> David > > If I understand correctly the problem is distributing dependency/runtime > DLLs with a package and ensuring the DLLs are found by Windows when the > pyd extensions are imported? > For numpy-MKL and other packages I include/install the extra DLLs in the > package directories and, if necessary, (i) append the package directory > to os.environ['PATH'] or (ii) "pre-load" the DLLs into the process using > Ctypes, both early in the package's main __init__.py. No admin rights > are required. So that seems to be the only option. Is there any other solution? Ondrej _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
