How do you force setup.py to use X compiler?

[jsmidt]

I have a few python packages I have downloaded that have c code that needs to be compiled. When I type
python setup.py build I get the gcc doing the compiling.

Normally you want this. However, I want to try to compile these packages with the intel compilers. When I try like this
python setup.py build -c=icc I get this error:
don't know how to compile C/C++ code on platform 'posix' with '=icc' compiler

I've tried changing icc with intel or doing -compiler or adding -f and, etc... and I always get the same error.

Is there any way to edit setup.py to force it to use "icc" as the compiler? While I'm at it, can I edit setup.py to force it to use different flags?

Thanks.

[diesch]

Does


python setup.py build -c icc

work?

[jsmidt]

Does


python setup.py build -c icc

work?

Unfortunately I still get this: "don't know how to compile C/C++ code on platform 'posix' with 'icc' compiler". But thanks.

[ArneBab]

Unfortunately I still get this: "don't know how to compile C/C++ code on platform 'posix' with 'icc' compiler". But thanks.

Sorry for raising this thread from the dead. If you don’t have it fixed now, you should be able to get it running by importing numpy.distutils.intelccompiler in your setup.py

(I just had the same problem and this thread came up when I searched. Well, and: http://xkcd.com/979/)

A slightly more elaborate solution which only requires numpy, if you actually want to use the intel compiler, looks like this:

setup.py:

…
if "intel" in sys.argv or "icc" in sys.argv:
try: # make it compile with the intel compiler
from numpy.distutils import intelccompiler
except ImportError:
print "Compiling with the intel compiler requires numpy."
raise
…

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png
http://xkcd.com/979/

[nothingspecial]

Sorry for raising this thread from the dead.

Please don't.

Thank you.

Closed.