Numpy Windows wheel builder

No longer maintained. This is the wrong repo, do not use it.

Build numpy wheels with MSVC and pre-built ATLAS binaries.

See appveyor.yml for the build process as applied on Appveyor.

If you are doing the build manually:

• Make a virtualenv to work in, and activate it;

• pip install -r requirements.txt;

• To build a wheel with old-style Windows platform tags (more compatible with old versions of pip), do pip install wheel==0.26;

• Clone the numpy github repo, checkout the version you want to build, and run the build script:

  git clone https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git
  cd numpy
  git checkout v1.11.0
  python ..\build_numpy.py
  

This should build you a numpy wheel with the ATLAS binary packaged inside. It will be in the dist subdirectory of the numpy source tree.

The appveyor.yml script uploades the wheels to a Rackspace container at:

• http://58688808cd85529d4031-38dee5dca2544308e91131f21428d924.r12.cf2.rackcdn.com
• https://84c1a9a06db6836f5a98-38dee5dca2544308e91131f21428d924.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com

The contents via the HTTPS URL seems to get updated more slowly than via the HTTP URL, so if you need the binaries quickly, prefer the HTTP URL.

Also, the Rackspace CDN takes some time to update, so leave at least 15 minutes after the end of a build, before fetching the built binary from the Rackspace URLs above.

ATLAS libraries built laboriously on a dedicated machine with Clint Whaley's help.

lib and exp files generated by MSVC lib.exe tool, as described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9946322/how-to-generate-an-import-library-lib-file-from-a-dll