[Biopython-dev] Notes on experimenting with making wheels

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Using my elderly 32 bit Windows XP machine,
>
> 1) Clean install of python-2.7.11.msi (for all users), which
> is currently the latest version - and comes with pip.
>
> 2) Upgrade pip
>
> C:\Python27\Scripts\pip install --upgrade pip
>
> (Ignored scary error about being unable to delete a temp
> folder using os.unlink via shutil.py)
>
> 3) Install setuptools and wheel
>
> C:\Python27\Scripts\pip install --upgrade wheel setuptools
>
> 4) Install binary wheel of numpy, got numpy 1.11.0
>
> C:\Python27\Scripts\pip install --only-binary numpy numpy
>
> 4) Get clean checkout of Biopython from git,
>
> 5) Build the wheel,
>
> C:\Python27\python setup.py bdist_wheel
>
> (Ignored warning about config variables Py_DEBUG and
> WITH_PYMALLOC being unset and that the Python ABI
> tag may be incorrect.)
>
> Giving:
>
> dist/biopython-1.67_-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl (1917KB)

Those warnings appear to be harmless based on this issue:

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3383

Peter