Re: Pyrex on Win7-64

Lynn Oliver <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Apr 2012 00:44:28 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.pyrex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, thanks for the response.  Responses are below.

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On Apr 8, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Lynn Oliver, 09.04.2012 01:01:
>> I'm using Pyrex to build PyPortMidi.
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> Is that something you are working on yourself or do you just want to
> install it in order to use it?

I just want to install it.
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> Does it really need Pyrex to be installed or does it ship with the
> generated C sources? If the latter, you could build entirely without Pyre=
x.

It doesn't ship with the C sources, but I was able to generate those on OS =
X.  I don't know why I was able to build from the C sources on win32 but no=
t win64; that may be worth another look.
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>> This error didn't occur on OS X.
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> Are you using the exact same version of Pyrex there?

Yes.  I copied the folder over from the OS X machine.
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>> I'm not a C  programmer so it's not clear to me what caused the error; h=
ere is the declaration =

> I would suggest using Cython instead of Pyrex (it's a largely enhanced
> successor), but I can't guarantee that it will be a drop-in replacement f=
or
> the entire code base of this library. At least, it won't show this
> particular problem, so it's worth a try.

I'll keep that in mind.
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> In any case, and in particular if you're just trying to install PyPortMidi
> as a user, you should also contact the authors and report the problem the=
re.

I'll certainly do that if I can find a way to contact them.  However, they =
don't support Windows platforms (the win32 installer was supplied by someon=
e else) and the error does not occur on OS X.
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> Stefan
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