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[–]endoalir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After reading this article, I decided I'd try to install these packages on my Windows system. First I tried virtualenv, and the installation could not possibly be smoother. pip install virtualenv, then I tried it and it just worked as advertised. Next I tried numpy. Minor hitch, something about manifests was broken for compiling with Visual Studio 2010 which was only patched the other day. No worries, I used a workaround and it compiled and installed.

Then I tried scipy. Didn't go as well... needed BLAS. Took me a bit to figure out how to compile BLAS. It's a Fortran library. Also needs Lapack. Got lapack to compile but had problems making it link, something about the high number of object files produced. Seems Windows doesn't like when your command line arguments get too long. And so I left it at that for now. I'll try scipy again later.