source: anuga_core/documentation/install_win32_python25.txt @ 6303

Setting up ANUGA with Python 2.5 on Win32 using MinGW
=====================================================

NOTE: Shell examples all use the MSYS bash shell. You'll need MSYS
anyway to build NetCDF, so I don't see this as a huge problem.

1. Get Python2.5

I used the Enthought python distribution from
(http://enthought.com/products/epd.php), as building VTK on Win32 with
MinGW appears to be very difficult, if not impossible.

2. Get MinGW/MSYS from http://mingw.org

ANUGA requires MinGW anyway, but MSYS is needed for the source build
of NetCDF.

3. Uninstall ScientificPython

Enthought's version of ScientificPython doesn't have the NetCDF
interface. It needs to be removed before the new one can be built.

Remove C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\Scientific....egg directory.

4. Install NetCDF from source

Get the NetCDF sources from
(http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/index.jsp). Unpack them
somewhere (I used c:\code\build). Fire up an MSYS shell and cd to the
top of the NetCDF directory. Building the NetCDF DLL requires some
specific compiler flags, or else you get strange errors where the
compiler is unable to determine sizeof(struct stat).

$ CFLAGS='-march=i686 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -D__MSVCRT_VERSION__=0x0601' ./configure --enable-dll --disable-f77 --disable-cxx --disable-examples --disable-utilities --enable-shared --disable-static --prefix=/c/netcdf
$ make
$ make check
$ make install

This will install the stuff into c:\netcdf. The ScientificPython build
scripts get confused and try to copy a `netcdf.dll', when this produces
a `libnetcdf-4.dll', so make a copy so it doesn't choke:

$ cp /c/netcdf/bin/{libnetcdf-4.dll,netcdf.dll}

5. Install Numeric from source

The age of the Numeric package means that it's not in the Enthought
distribution, but we need it for ANUGA.

Grab the last Numeric sources (24.2) from
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&package_id=1351),
extract somewhere and build using distutils:

$ python setup.py build -c mingw32 install

6. Install ScientificPython from source

Grab ScientificPython from
(http://sourcesup.cru.fr/frs/?group_id=180&release_id=966) and extract
somewhere.

The setup.py needs to be fixed, as it makes some bad assumptions about
the NetCDF prefix layout. I present a unified diff of the changes.

diff -u ScientificPython-2.7.8.a/setup.py ScientificPython-2.7.8/setup.py
--- ScientificPython-2.7.8.a/setup.py   Fri Nov 30 05:07:37 2007
+++ ScientificPython-2.7.8/setup.py     Fri Mar 28 12:30:50 2008
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@
         if netcdf_dll is None:
             print "Option --netcdf_dll is missing"
             raise SystemExit
-        netcdf_include = netcdf_prefix
-        netcdf_h_file = os.path.join(netcdf_prefix, 'netcdf.h')
+        netcdf_include = os.path.join(netcdf_prefix, 'include')
+        netcdf_h_file = os.path.join(netcdf_include, 'netcdf.h')
         netcdf_lib = netcdf_dll
         data_files.append(('DLLs', [os.path.join(netcdf_dll, 'netcdf.dll')]))
         scripts.append('scientific_win32_postinstall.py')
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
                              ['Src/Scientific_netcdf.c'],
                              include_dirs=['Include', netcdf_include]
                                           + arrayobject_h_include,
-                             library_dirs=[netcdf_lib],
+                             library_dirs=[netcdf_lib, os.path.join(netcdf_prefix, 'lib')],
                              libraries = ['netcdf'],
                              extra_compile_args=extra_compile_args)]

Compile and install ScientificPython:

$ NETCDF_PREFIX=/c/netcdf python setup.py --netcdf_dll=c:\\netcdf\\bin
build -c mingw32 install

The install process for ScientificPython copies netcdf.dll into
C:\Python25\DLLs (or whatever the Python root is). This will cause
breakage as it's linked against libnetcdf-4.dll. Fix this:

$ mv /c/Python25/DLLs/{netcdf.dll,libnetcdf-4.dll}

Run the ANUGA unit tests to make sure that it works. If everything's
good, the source directories and the installed path for NetCDF can be
removed.