Simplify appveyor build using PyPackaging instructiosn.

appveyor.yml

@@ -5,25 +5,14 @@ environment:
     # See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13751649/163740
     CMD_IN_ENV: "cmd /E:ON /V:ON /C .\\ci\\appveyor\\run_with_env.cmd"
   matrix:
-    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python35_64"
-      PYTHON_VERSION: "3.5"
-      PYTHON_ARCH: "64"
-      CONDA_PY: "35"
-      CONDA_NPY: "111"
+    - PYTHON: "C:\\Python35-x64"
 
 install:
-  # this installs the appropriate Miniconda (Py2/Py3, 32/64 bit),
-  # as well as pip, conda-build, and the binstar CLI
-  - powershell .\\ci\\appveyor\\install.ps1
-  - "SET PATH=%PYTHON%\\Scripts;%PYTHON%;%PATH%"
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% python --version"
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% conda update -q conda"
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% conda install conda-build anaconda-client"
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% conda install --yes numpy scipy matplotlib"
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% conda install --yes --channel matsci spglib"
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% pip install -r requirements.txt"
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% pip install pybtex nose sympy unittest2 coverage ase coveralls"
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% python setup.py develop"
+  - "%PYTHON%\\python.exe -m pip install wheel"
+  - "%PYTHON%\\python.exe -m pip install numpy scipy"
+  - "%PYTHON%\\python.exe -m pip install -r requirements.txt"
+  - "%PYTHON%\\python.exe -m pip install pybtex nose sympy unittest2 coverage ase coveralls"
+  - "build.cmd %PYTHON%\\python.exe setup.py develop"
 
 build: false
 

build.cmd

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+@echo off
+:: To build extensions for 64 bit Python 3, we need to configure environment
+:: variables to use the MSVC 2010 C++ compilers from GRMSDKX_EN_DVD.iso of:
+:: MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4
+::
+:: More details at:
+:: https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/64BitCythonExtensionsOnWindows
+
+IF "%DISTUTILS_USE_SDK%"=="1" (
+    ECHO Configuring environment to build with MSVC on a 64bit architecture
+    ECHO Using Windows SDK 7.1
+    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\WindowsSdkVer.exe" -q -version:v7.1
+    CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.cmd" /x64 /release
+    SET MSSdk=1
+    REM Need the following to allow tox to see the SDK compiler
+    SET TOX_TESTENV_PASSENV=DISTUTILS_USE_SDK MSSdk INCLUDE LIB
+) ELSE (
+    ECHO Using default MSVC build environment
+)
+
+CALL %*