[Biopython-dev] Compiling on modern windows (recent mingw)

[Tiago Antão]

Hi,


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:

> For now does the hack of editing Lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py yourself
> get it to work? I could live with that on the build slave, coupled with a
> warning in our install documentation for the brave people self-compiling
> under Windows.
>

I have hacked my distutils implementation. It compiled OK.
That being said, there seems to be some problems with Bio.Applications on
win8:
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/builders/Windows%208%20-%20Python%202.7/builds/12/steps/shell/logs/stdio



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