Compiling Python on Windows

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I am trying to create a version of Pandas development on a machine running Windows 7 with Python 2.7.6. I followed the following steps ( http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/install.html ).

• I checked that I had the necessary dependencies and some of the optional ones (Cython = .20, Numpy = 1.7.1, Python-DateUtil = 1.5, pytz = 2013.9)
• I double checked that dependencies were updated
• I cloned github using git clone git: //github.com/pydata/pandas.git
• I installed the minGW compiler package (including C and C ++ compilers).
• Setting up mingw - version 4.3.3

• I made sure pydistutils.cfg is in the right place (C: \ Python27 \ Lib \ distutils) and has the following code:

  [build] compiler=mingw32 

• I am trying to build using: python setup.py build --compiler == mingw32
• It starts in a few seconds, then the error below is triggered.

Error

How can I fix this so that it is built? Thanks!

Answer 1

Just in case, someone made the same mistake as I did, I realized that I was using 64-bit Windows 7 with 32-bit MinGW compiler. There's a MinGW compiler 64 bits here that fixed this problem.