[pypy-dev] Windows 7 x64 development

[Robert Grosse]

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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