# Trying to build NumPy on windows

### Method 1: Trying out random stuff over the internet.
- Searched error trace online. [This github issue](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/12016) has a similar error stack trace as compared to my error stack trace.
- Ralf suggests installing a BLAS/LAPACK distribution [here](https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/12016#issuecomment-423728471).
- Installed Visual Studio 2022, Visual C++ redistributable 2015-22. Still getting the same error.
- Tried to install SciPy from source using [this repo](https://github.com/jhvital/build-scipy-openblas)
- It tries to build SciPy wheels using `python.exe -m pip wheel -v -v -v ./scipy/`
- Building wheels fails because `python setup.py egg_info` fails because of Circular import error.
- Tried to downgrade python version as mentioned [here]()

- https://numpy.org/devdocs/f2py/windows/conda.html