Re: [igraph] Windows build requirements for 0.6

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Chris Wj <address@hidden> wrote:
> What are the current requirements for 0.6 to build on windows (both library
> and python extension)?

There are no such things as yet. 0.6 is a development branch and we
don't develop it on windows. At least I haven't tried to build it on
windows for a long time, and I suppose Tamas has not, either.

> I have successfully compiled igraph 0.6 in the cygwin environment (using
> cygwin's python), but I would like to be able to use the native Python and
> not have the cygwin dependencies. I have tried MinGW and MSYS with lots of
> headache.

We failed to build the previous version with MinGW and/or MSYS. If I
recall it well, the problem was that Python was built with an old
version of Visual Studio, but maybe not.

> What do you guys do to build for windows? What is your build environment?

The latest released version was built with some version of Visual
Studio, 2003, if I remember well. The main 0.6 branch should build
with Visual Studio 2003 after some cosmetics, but before the release
we might add some Fortran code from another branch (the C version of
ARPACK is not reliable) and this might make things even more
complicated.

G.

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