Guidelines for compiling the Algencan's Python interface in Windows

[Ricardo Andrade]

Here I'm going to provide a few guidelines in order to help those
wanting to compile the Python module to run ALGENCAN in a Windows machine.
All the steps here were run in a Windows XP machine, using Cygwin with
the packages GCC 4.5.3, Python 2.6.8 (with sources) and Numpy 1.6.2
(with sources) .

1) Unpack algencan  (I'll use ALGDIR to refer to the directory where it
is unpacked)
2) Edit ALGDIR/sources/interfaces/py/Makefile and change the line where
it's written:
        $(FC) $(LDFLAGS) $^ -o $@
adding the flag -lpython2.6:
        $(FC) $(LDFLAGS) $^ -o $@ -lpython2.6
Note here that I'm using Python 2.6.8, so the flag is called
-lpython2.6. If you use a different python version (for example, 2.X)
you should use the appropriate flag (ie. -lpython2.X).
3) Edit ALGDIR/Makefile and be sure that the variables PYTHONINC and
PYTHONLIB are set correctly
4) Change to the directory ALGDIR and run "make algencan-py"
5) Go to directory ALGDIR/bin/py and rename pywrapper.so to pywrapper.dll .
6) Follow instructions 2 to 5 from the README (located in the ALGDIR
directory)


   Best wishes,


         Ricardo