[pypy-dev] CLI on Windows

[Antonio Cuni]

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've played around a little bit with PyPy and Mono on Linux.  Now I'm
> wondering what the requirements are to use/test the CLI features of PyPy
> on Windows.
> 
> Can anyone give a list of the dependencies PyPy/CLI has on Windows?

Hi Jean-Paul,

the only requirement is that .NET 2.0 is installed and that csc.exe and 
ilasm.exe are on the path. I've never tried with newer versions of .NET, 
it might work or not.

Moreover, some time ago I encountered one problem with microsoft ilasm 
which prevented pypy-cli to be compiled; I don't know if the problem 
it's still there. The workaround is to use mono's ilasm to assemble the 
bytecode, then run the resulting exe as usual; if pypy finds that mono 
is installed, it will automatically use mono's ilasm instead of 
microsoft's one.

ciao Anto