On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:02 PM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if we could finally move to a more recent version of >> compilers for official win32 installers. This would of course concern >> the next release cycle, not the ones where beta/rc are already in >> progress. >> >> Basically, the pros: >> - we will have to move at some point >> - gcc 4.* seem less buggy, especially C++ and fortran. >> - no need to maintain msvcr90 vodoo >> The cons: >> - it will most likely break the ABI >> - we need to recompile atlas (but I can take care of it) >> - the biggest: it is difficult to combine gfortran with visual >> studio (more exactly you cannot link gfortran runtime to a visual >> studio executable). The only solution I could think of would be to >> recompile the gfortran runtime with Visual Studio, which for some >> reason does not sound very appealing :) >> >> Thoughts ? > > Does this make any difference for producing 64bit Windows > installers?
I have not tried in a long time to compile numpy/scipy with mingw 64 bits, but being able to use the same gcc line on 32 bits (4.*, 3.* does not support 64 bits) should not hurt. cheers, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
