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diff --git a/docs/src/quickstart/install.rst b/docs/src/quickstart/install.rst index 8b5f4c350..979d0f178 100644 --- a/docs/src/quickstart/install.rst +++ b/docs/src/quickstart/install.rst @@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ according to the system used: - **Linux** The GNU C Compiler (gcc) is usually present, or easily available through the package system. On Ubuntu or Debian, for - instance, the command ``sudo apt-get install build-essential`` will - fetch everything you need. + instance, it is part of the ``build-essential`` package. Next to a + C compiler, Cython requires the Python header files. On Ubuntu or + Debian, the command ``sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-dev`` + will fetch everything you need. - **Mac OS X** To retrieve gcc, one option is to install Apple's XCode, which can be retrieved from the Mac OS X's install DVDs or @@ -27,7 +29,11 @@ according to the system used: built with. This is usually a specific version of Microsoft Visual C/C++ (MSVC) - see https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers. MSVC is the only compiler that Cython is currently tested with on - Windows. A possible alternative is the open source MinGW (a + Windows. If you're having difficulty making setuptools detect + MSVC then `PyMSVC <https://github.com/kdschlosser/python_msvc>`_ + aims to solve this. + + A possible alternative is the open source MinGW (a Windows distribution of gcc). See the appendix for instructions for setting up MinGW manually. Enthought Canopy and Python(x,y) bundle MinGW, but some of the configuration steps in the appendix might |