diff options
| author | Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com> | 2011-10-04 22:45:22 +0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com> | 2011-10-04 22:46:19 +0200 |
| commit | 35952aaed7caa1307a7551c053d0ac57fef047d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f318a09e02f5ad859d7a7f1bde4cf384440361e | |
| parent | 909010af44d3cab2066bfe02a916a36fe1040e54 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-35952aaed7caa1307a7551c053d0ac57fef047d4.tar.gz | |
DOC: describe required version of GCC in MinGW on Windows in release doc.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt b/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt index a4ea65940..e1d860bc0 100644 --- a/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt +++ b/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt @@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ The same gcc version is used as the one with which Python itself is built on each platform. At the moment this means: * OS X uses gcc-4.0 (since that is what Python itself is built with). -* Windows build uses latest released version from MinGW, now at 3.4.5. +* Windows build uses the latest released version from MinGW. Note that NumPy + releases until 1.6.x and SciPy releases until 0.10.x were made with GCC + 3.4.5. For NumPy 1.7.x ad later GCC 4.x is required. Cython is not needed for building the binaries, because generated C files from Cython sources are checked in at the moment. It is worth keeping an eye on what |