Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-21 Thread Laurent Gautier
On 2012-06-21 10:50, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Uwe Schmitt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> how does mingw build extensions modules play with an official cpython >> interpreter ? > AFAICT numpy's official win32 installers are built with mingw, using > wine on OS X, and are linke

Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-21 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Uwe Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > how does mingw build extensions modules play with an official cpython > interpreter ? AFAICT numpy's official win32 installers are built with mingw, using wine on OS X, and are linked against third-party compiled libraries (BLAS/LAPA

Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-21 Thread Laurent Gautier
What I can tell is that is appeared to be working (although distutils is/was broken: http://bugs.python.org/msg67039). I read that optimally CPython would have to be also compiled with Mingw (although I am not certain it is possible), but I tried and it went OK. On the other hand compiling R wit

Re: [Rpy] windows support

2012-06-21 Thread Uwe Schmitt
Hi, how does mingw build extensions modules play with an official cpython interpreter ? If you build such a module with a ms compiler which has a different version as the one python was build with, your module will crash. I suppose the problem comes from different runtime dlls as msvcrXX.dll, b