building_scipy_superpack

Building Scipy superpack installers on Windows

See: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt#wine for a list of dependencies.

Dependencies

See https://github.com/certik/numpy-vendor for a setup that worked on Wine.

MakeNsis is part of the NSIS package: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download

The current MinGW mingw-get-setup.exe installer gave me build errors with an incorrect address in a .data segment, which compiling scipy. I found the GUI install here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/ - but I suggest you don't use it.

I then tried downloading mingw-get from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get/mingw-get-0.6.2-beta-20131004-1/mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-bin.tar.xz/download

I unpacked into c:\mingw with 7-zip, so I now had a file c:\mingw\bin\mingw-get. Then:

mingw-get install gcc-v3-c++
mingw-get install gcc-v3-fortran

as per instructions here.

My first compile I ran into an odd runtime error, discussed in this stackoverflow post. I followed the instructions there:

mingw-get upgrade "mingwrt=3.18.*"

I installed numpy from sourceforge binary installers.

Installed Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 from Python.org installers.

Copied binaries in numpy/vendor into expected path:

mkdir -p c:\local\lib\yop
cp -r Z:\numpy-vendor\binaries\* C:\local\lib\yop

Ran C:\Python27\python.exe get-pip.py on get-pip.py pip installer, for all three versions of Python.

I had to do:

c:\Python27\Scripts\pip install tempita

for all versions of Python I was building. Then:

pip install paver
pip install virtualenv

Setup

Put Python 2.7, NSIS, MinGW on path, something like (for powershell):

$env:PATH=$env:PATH + ";C:\Python27;c:\Python27\Scripts;C:\Program Files (x86)\NSIS;c:\Mingw\bin"

Building the installers

Building for Python 3.3:

paver bdist_superpack -p 3.3