Re: [igraph] install igraph in windows 7 64bit

[Tamas Nepusz]

Oh yes, I forgot to mention: maybe you can try installing a 32-bit
Python on your Windows, I'm pretty sure igraph will work with that
without any further tweaking.

-- 
Tamas

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:18:39AM +0100, Tamas Nepusz wrote:
> Dear Adrian,
> 
> > If I start the installer for igraph under windows 7 64-bit with python
> > 2.6 64-bit installed, the installer for igraph does complain no python
> > installation is found in registry. How can I use igraph in a 64bit
> > Windows-Python envirnoment?
> Unfortunately we cannot provide 64-bit Python installers for Windows at
> the moment as I only have a 32-bit Windows XP installed in a virtual
> machine. If you want to install igraph on a 64-bit Windows machine, you
> have to compile it yourself. You will need the following tools to do
> that:
> 
> - Microsoft Visual Studio Express
> - A working MSYS environment (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS)
> - libxml2 and iconv (you have to compile these yourself as well, AFAIK
>   there are no pre-compiled 64-bit binaries for Windows yet)
> 
> I'll be happy to help with the compilation if you get stuck, so just
> mail me in private if you are willing to give it a go.
> 
> -- 
> Tamas