Re: [igraph] Easier way to compile igraph on Windows?

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Szabolcs Horvát <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 7 September 2015 at 19:46, Gábor Csárdi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Also, I am not sure if MSVC objects and msys objects are binary
>> compatible. In general, can you compile Mathematica extensions with
>> both?
>>
>
> Thanks for the response Gábor ! I don't really understand the source
> of these incompatibilities.

I don't know much about these toolchains, I guess it comes down to
which standard libraries are used in R and in Python.

> I know that both MSVC and mingw32 used to
> work more or less out of the box with Mathematica, and I used the
> latter a lot. MinGW-w64 requires more work, but there is actually a
> usage example in the Mathematica documentation ... of course that
> doesn't mean that there won't ever be any problems ...  It would
> likely be the safest if I could use MSVC as that's the standard
> toolchain on Windows, but at the moment I'll be happy if I can get
> things working at all, with any compiler.
>
> When you compiled with MinGW, did you have any problem with tests
> passing (or rather not passing)?

I only compile the R package with mingw, and that has a separate test
suite, the C tests are never checked.

G.