[pypy-dev] Question on installing pypy and the source code ..

[Dave Watson (davewats)]

Hi Yury ..

I have just been looking at the pypy internals, and I have been trying to find out where I can add a new library directory for linking/includes, rather than depending on the system libraries, which in my case don't have the required dependent libs, so I will need to add them in order to get pypy to compile ..

I was not able to find a convenient place to add in a additional Library path .. I found the variable LIB_ROOT, that may be possible to modify, but it didn't look like it was a  great location to modify .. 

I was wondering I you or someone else might know of a good place that would allow the required alternative library location to be added to the configuration ..

Thanks for any help that you can offer ..

Cheers

Dave W.

-----Original Message-----
From: Yury V. Zaytsev [mailto:yury at shurup.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:32 PM
To: Dave Watson (davewats)
Cc: pypy-dev at python.org; Steve Marsh (stevmars); Gilbert Ramirez (gilramir)
Subject: Re: [pypy-dev] Question on installing pypy and the source code ..

On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 16:10 +0000, Dave Watson (davewats) wrote:
> 
> I there a set of instructions for very first time builders ??

Hi,

I think that you are misinterpreting the instructions on the website. 

They don't imply that you already have *PyPy* installed, but they do imply that you have *some* implementation of Python installed, such as CPython, which is probably already the case for you.

So if you want to re-build PyPy completely, you need to translate it using some pre-existing Python interpreter, such as CPython, or PyPy itself, and then build it, for which you need a C compiler.

Once you've got the PyPy package, you can use virtualenv, so that you can easily switch between different versions and install additional packages using pip.

HTH!

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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev