[pypy-dev] Windows 7 x64 development

[Robert Grosse]

Are you sure that building CPython with the Windows SDK is actually
supported? I've found instructions online for building various Python
extensions with the free compiler, but I haven't been able to find anything
that works for building Python itself.

Running setup.py fails because sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS")
returns None.


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Clay Sweetser <clay.sweetser at gmail.com>wrote:

> Um, I believe you're mistaken. Though it's true that visual studio express
> doesn't *come * with a 64 bit compiler (at least on windows 7 and below,
> the latest one for win8 does) you can still download the windows 64 bit SDK
> and use the one that comes with that.
>
> Sincerely, Clay Sweetser
>
> "Evil begins when you begin to think of people as things." - Terry
> Pratchett
> On Sep 3, 2013 11:53 PM, "Robert Grosse" <n210241048576 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It looks like CPython assumes the use of Visual Studio on Windows, but
>> the express edition does not support 64bit compilation. Would it be
>> feasible to use Mingw instead? I've looked around online, but it seems
>> pretty discouraging.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
>>> > I finally wrote out the details of what I think is a reasonable plan.
>>> >
>>> >     https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/raw/default/pypy/doc/windows.rst
>>> >     "What is missing for a full 64-bit translation"
>>>
>>> Updated the file.  Anyone with an interest in helping on Win64, please
>>> start by looking there --- the first step does not require any PyPy
>>> knowledge, because it's hacking at *CPython* :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> A bientôt,
>>>
>>> Armin.
>>>
>>
>>
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