[BioPython] Windows Install Question

[Jeffrey Chang]

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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