Using Cython on Windows XP

###Cython and Windows XP 32bit - Procedure

Install Cython and MinGW. Make sure the Windows Path variable contains the following directories:

C:\Python27\Scripts  
C:\MinGW\bin

Tell Cython to use MinGW by creating (or editing) the file C:\Python27\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg with the content:

[build]
compiler=mingw32

Depending on the version of MinGW, all occurences of -mno-cygwin have to be removed from the file

C:\Python27\Lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py

The numpy header files have to be included for cygwin. Copy

C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\numpy-1.6.2-py2.7-win32.egg\numpy\core\include\numpy

to

C:\Python27\include\

This should enable you to compile the ~.pyx files by running the following code in PyScanFCS/

python setup.py build_ext --inplace

If that command failed due to a missing file SFCSNumeric.c, it means that SFCSNumeric.pyx was not processed by pyrex. Try to update your version of setuptools.