[BioPython] Windows Install Question

[Andreas Matern]

Hi Jeffrey,

I have a C++ compiler installed, but I don't know how to specify that
for Distutils.

If you'd like, once this works, I can write up what I've done to get
biopython working for windows...

Thanks for your help...

Andreas

Jeffrey Chang wrote:
> 
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> I've not used Biopython on windows before, but it looks like it's
> expecting a compiler called "cl.exe" and not finding it.  Do you have
> a compiler installed and know how to specify that for Distutils?
> 
> Otherwise, as a quick hack, you can get the package working by
> commenting out all the extension (C) code.  Go into "setup.py", at
> the end of the script is a list of all the extension modules.
> Comment out the ext_modules variable.  Don't worry, there's python
> equivalents of all those modules, so everything will still work, but
> slower.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> At 12:16 PM -0400 10/23/01, Andreas Matern wrote:
> >Sorry about the newbie post, but:
> >
> >Trying to install biopython on WinNT:
> >
> >Getting the error:
> >
> >cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GX -IC:\Python21\Include
> >/TcBio/Tools/Classification/cSVMmodule.c
> >/Fobuild\temp.win32-2.1\Release\cSVMmodule.obj
> >error: command 'cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> >And, (while i'm aggravating you)
> >
> >How does one change python's search path?  I installed python on a UNIX
> >box, changing the --prefix to a writeable area.
> >
> >Thanks for your help, looking forward to contributing/working with
> >biopython...
> >
> >-Andreas
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Andreas Matern
Bioinformatician
LION Bioscience Research, Inc.
141 Portland Street, 10th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139

andreas.matern@lbri.lionbioscience.com
phone: (617) 245-5483
fax:   (617) 245-5499