[pypy-dev] How to get PIL to install?

[Jacob Finkelman]

Thanks.

I feel really dumb for having to ask you this… Where do I find
.../ffi_common.h? It does not appear to be in my PYPY-1.8 folder.

Jacob

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
>
> Googling around, I found this thread:
>
> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-SG/vcgeneral/thread/6ca96d26-1765-49d8-85fd-d455795fbb7e
>
> It seems related.  The basic issue is that "INT8" is already defined,
> possibly as a #define macro, from somewhere inside PIL; then when it
> #includes the standard header, crash.  Or maybe it's "UINT8" or
> "SINT8", which are typedefs from
> pypy/translator/c/src/libffi_msvc/ffi_common.h.  In the first case,
> the version of PIL you're using wouldn't compile at all on VC++2008
> even on CPython, so it looks unlikely (except in some case like
> Python.h happens not to #include this standard header in CPython, but
> doing so in PyPy).  To try to fix the second case, try renaming UINT8
> and SINT8, which are defined in
> ./translator/c/src/libffi_msvc/ffi_common.h and apparently used only
> once in ./translator/c/src/libffi_msvc/ffi.c.  (I think I'll rename it
> anyway to avoid such issues.)
>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.