Support for Windows x64

[Who8MyLunch]

The setup.py is currently configured for developer environments where the compiler is expected to behave similar to GCC. Do there exist plans to support Visual Studio and x64 on Windows platforms?

[storpipfugl]

Hi,

As we are working in a Linux only environment, Visual Studio does not support C99 and OpenMP requires Visual Studio Professional we can't currently justify using the resources to make a version for Windows with Visual Studio.

What is required:

1. Adding a compiler flag block to setup.py with the correct flags for MSVC e.g.: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/724664/python-distutils-how-to-get-a-compiler-that-is-going-to-be-used
2. As for C99 pykdtree relies on <stdint.h> and the restrict keyword. The <stdint.h> is included from Visual Studio 2010 so that should work. The restrict keyword might be ignored by MSVC otherwise a blank macro should do the trick
3. OpenMP support needs to be tested with Visual Studio Professional

I'll of course look into any problems reported if somebody tries to build it with Visual Studio on Windows.

Best regards,
Esben

[storpipfugl]

Fixed by v1.2.0