usage on windows

[romanman]

Hey fellows,

I am trying to debug the code
on windows , and have some
problems including leveldb
package, Tried to Google it , no good
alternatives for windows.
Can you suggest me
some king of solution here ?

Thanks in advance.

[konradkonrad]

Hi @romanman!
I tried it on the one windows computer I have at hand -- and I can confirm your issue:

pip install leveldb fails with
Don't know how to compile leveldb for Windows!.

Unfortunately at this point in time, I can not give you any more support about that issue. Until someone with experience in python+windows(+leveldb) steps up, I am afraid we can not do anything about it.

[vfdev-5]

There is a project to compile leveldb using VC
https://github.com/happynear/py-leveldb-windows

Here there is a similar issue
willyd/caffe-builder#12

Cheers

[pckilgore]

Also found a fairly recent cmake/win patch here:

google/leveldb#475

Not a visual studio user so someone else will have to test it out.

[ofek]

As of #777 our secp256k1 dep works on Windows.

Perhaps we could replace LevelDB with LMDB https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lmdb