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When trying to install a certain Python geophysical toolkit, I get this error:

LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'm.lib'

I believe it is due to my use of the MSVC's buildtools. In their setup.py I found:

setup(…, ext_modules=[ Extension(…, […], libraries=['m'], … ])

What do I need to change in this setup.py—and related files?—to make this work. IIRC there is a library other than m which I am to use.

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  • I had a similar problem. Although I can't tell with certainty the linker of gcc is looking for file libm.a if option -lm is given, while MSVC's tools are looking for m.lib which does not exist. If I find a solution I will post it. – kon psych Apr 24 '14 at 01:51
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    I had same problem when I compile ffmpeg with libopus. I took libm.a file from MinGW and it helped, but technically this file from MinGW is dummy. – Andrew Kozlov Oct 19 '17 at 09:51

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On Windows, the standard math functions are handled by MSVCR:

>>> from ctypes.util import find_library
>>> find_library('m')
'msvcr90.dll'

I don't have MSVC installed to test, but you just need to link against the runtime. Try removing 'm'.

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I faced the same issue while installing cvxopt.

 MSVC: set this variable to 1 if compiling with MSVC 14 or later

Setting MSVC to 1 solved this issue for me.

For more info: https://cvxopt.org/install/

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