[Pyrex] Pyrex on Win7-64

[Lynn Oliver]

Hi, thanks for the response.  Responses are below.

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On Apr 8, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Lynn Oliver, 09.04.2012 01:01:
>> I'm using Pyrex to build PyPortMidi.
> 
> Is that something you are working on yourself or do you just want to
> install it in order to use it?

I just want to install it.
> 
> Does it really need Pyrex to be installed or does it ship with the
> generated C sources? If the latter, you could build entirely without Pyrex.

It doesn't ship with the C sources, but I was able to generate those on OS X.  I don't know why I was able to build from the C sources on win32 but not win64; that may be worth another look.
>> 
>> This error didn't occur on OS X.
> 
> Are you using the exact same version of Pyrex there?

Yes.  I copied the folder over from the OS X machine.
> 
> 
>> I'm not a C  programmer so it's not clear to me what caused the error; here is the declaration 
> I would suggest using Cython instead of Pyrex (it's a largely enhanced
> successor), but I can't guarantee that it will be a drop-in replacement for
> the entire code base of this library. At least, it won't show this
> particular problem, so it's worth a try.

I'll keep that in mind.
> 
> In any case, and in particular if you're just trying to install PyPortMidi
> as a user, you should also contact the authors and report the problem there.

I'll certainly do that if I can find a way to contact them.  However, they don't support Windows platforms (the win32 installer was supplied by someone else) and the error does not occur on OS X.
> 
> Stefan
> 
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