Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff onWindows

2014-04-15 Thread Fernando Perez
Quick question on this: has anyone looked at the Open Watcom compiler? There was a lighting talk at Pycon about a guy who's been working on getting Python itself to build on Windows with this compiler. I don't know if it might help in all this, if nothing else it mitght be good to have. This was

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff onWindows

2014-04-15 Thread Aron Ahmadia
Fernando is referring to this: http://lightningpython.org/ I have to admit that as a Pythonist supporting Windows builds, Cygwin and/or MinGW have always been the most appealing because so much of the rest of the numerical computing infrastructure is primarily supported on UNIXy platforms. A

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff onWindows

2014-04-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Fernando Perez fperez@gmail.com wrote: Quick question on this: has anyone looked at the Open Watcom compiler? There was a lighting talk at Pycon about a guy who's been working on getting Python itself to build on Windows with this compiler. I don't

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff onWindows

2014-04-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Aron Ahmadia a...@ahmadia.net wrote: Fernando is referring to this: http://lightningpython.org/ I have to admit that as a Pythonist supporting Windows builds, Cygwin and/or MinGW have always been the most appealing because so much of the rest of the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff onWindows

2014-04-12 Thread Eelco Hoogendoorn
] Wiki page for building numerical stuff onWindows Eelco Hoogendoorn hoogendoorn.ee...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder: how hard would it be to create a more 21th-century oriented BLAS, relying more on code generation tools, and perhaps LLVM/JITting? Wouldn't we get ten times the portability