Building 64-bit Python extensions with f2py on Windows

Question

I\'m attempting to build a Python extension from Fortran source using Numpy\'s f2py.py script. I\'m following the steps from http://www.scipy.org/F2PY_Windows (web

Answer 1

It seems that the solution is to just comment out the exception line. See this blog post.

Answer 2

This should be fixed in a future release, a discussed and changed.

It looks like this change did not make it to the 1.9.x maintenance branch, but in the master tree and whatever version is after.

Answer 3

I had the similar error when trying to install ggplot with

pip install -U ggplot

The solution was found here: https://github.com/obspy/obspy/wiki/Installation-via-Anaconda

Anaconda for Windows ships with C and Fortran compilers, however compiling on a 64bit Windows may require a small patch by changing line no. 331 in AnacondaInstallDir\Lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\fcompiler\gnu.py to pass #raise NotImplementedError("Only MS compiler supported with gfortran on win64").