Static assertion in numpy.h fails when compiling with MINGW GCC

[lvk88]

When compiling this code:

#include "pybind11/pybind11.h"
#include "pybind11/numpy.h"

namespace py=pybind11;

PYBIND11_MODULE(foo,m)
{

}

With mingw GCC 6.3.0 64bit (default flags provided by cmake), I am getting the following error message:

In file included from pybind.cpp:2:0:
C:\{whatever_path_to_my_pybind_includes}/pybind11/numpy.h:35:1: error: static assertion failed: ssize_t != Py_intptr_t
 static_assert(sizeof(ssize_t) == sizeof(Py_intptr_t), "ssize_t != Py_intptr_t");
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~

To get rid of it, I need to manually add -DMS_WIN64 to the compiler flags. Also, -D_hypot=hypot needs to be added, but this is related to issue #838 .

Is this something that someone might have encountered before?

[lvk88]

Small update: apparently, this is an issue generally when trying to compile C extensions for Python using mingw64. A discussion related to the issue is here:

https://bugs.python.org/issue4709

I guess then there is not much to do on the pybind11 side? Shall this be closed?

[liye0005]

we met the same problem, and follow your solution, it works now, thanks a lot! @lvk88