[PyCUDA] Yet another thread about installing on WinXP

Hey everyone, it turns out PyCUDA on Linux was such a bit hit that some colleagues are asking for the same thing for their Windows boxes also. I have made sure the NVIDIA CUDA SDK examples work and am following the wiki installation for MSVC 9.0 with some trouble. I used the BoostPro 1.38 installer to install default variants for Visual C++ 9.0 (Visual Studio 2008), with variants Multithread, DLL; Multithread; Multithread, static runtime; and Single thread, static runtime. I install the default components as well as Boost DateTime, Boost Python, and Boost Threads, without which the installation of PyCUDA won't happen. I've tried various other combinations of variants and compilers but test_driver.py fails with the same error message: C:\home\fasiha\pycuda\test>python test_driver.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_driver.py", line 472, in <module> import pycuda.autoinit File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pycuda-0.94beta-py2.6-win32.egg\pycuda\autoinit.py", line 1, in <module> import pycuda.driver as cuda File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pycuda-0.94beta-py2.6-win32.egg\pycuda\driver.py", line 1, in <module> from _driver import * ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. I was slightly confused with the instruction to "set HOME=123456", I'm not too familiar with Windows, so I tried that as well as "set HOME=c:/home/fasiha" (and with backslashes), the same error. I'm also slightly confused by this sentence in the wiki: "To work with pycuda You need to have Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (VS 8) included in the PATH variable (for example c:\mvs8\vc\bin, where mvs8 - is your vc8 installation part) (otherwise, CUDA complains about version 6 and 7.1 !)" I assume that this is not a problem for me since PyCUDA doesn't seem to complain about MSVC. I am so sorry to unload yet another plea for installation assistance, I never ever thought I'd be installing it in Windows but I guess it's a small price for success :) I'll keep trying some stuff and report any further info. Thanks all, Ahmed