[pypy-dev] Anyone interested in a MIPS port...

[David Schneider]

On 16.10.2011, at 20:03, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Nicolas Hureau
> <nicolas.hureau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> On 24 August 2011 15:14, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
>>> Sven and David are currently working on the PowerPC backend in the
>>> branch "ppc-jit-backend", if you want to follow; it is still at an
>>> early stage, which means that the amount of code so far should be
>>> reasonable.
>>> 
>>> Sorry to answer this late, it seems that nobody is very much
>>> interested in contributing...  All I can promise myself is to give you
>>> some help, as I do right now with Sven. :-)
>> 
>> I'm also interested in contributing to a MIPS port of the JIT backend.
>> 
>> Is there any tip for cross-compiling PyPy that I should know about
>> before beginning ?
>> 
>> Thanks,
> 
> Cross compiling pypy is a bit hairy because PyPy (at translation time)
> queries underlaying Python enviroment for some details. You might be
> able to get rid of that, but it's a bit of work. We're here to help
> though. And no, there are no cross-compiler tools I'm aware of.
> 
> Cheers,
> fijal
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