[pypy-dev] Pypy - Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

[Matti Picus]

On 30/03/15 19:41, Heng Cheong wrote:
 > Hi Yaacov,
 > I am using Python 3.4 on Windows 7.
 > I did a lot of Goggling and found differing solutions. Like some 
people suggested to install Visual Studio 2008
 > (which is no longer available), or Visual C++ 2010 Express, or MinGW 
compiler (haven't try this one out yet),
 > and at the same time some people said they have tried out such 
suggestions and while some got their
 > problem solved, some others said a different kind of technical 
problem cropped up. So it's like the
 > solutions to this "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat" isn't standardized, 
thus I have no idea what exactly should I do.

PyPy is available as a binary zip file for windows from 
http://pypy.org/download.html, there is no reason for you to compile it. 
If you do choose to do so, please follow these  instructions carefully : 
http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/windows.html

Note that by default PyPy is compatible with cpython 2.7.9, we do not 
have a cpython 3.4 version available yet.

As far as obtaining visual studio 2008, you might want to try 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266, which was 
the first Google hit for "microsoft python compiler" and provides enough 
of visual studio 2008 to build python packages for python 2.7. The 
standard compiler for python 3.x is visual 2010, also a free download 
from https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads#d-2010-express

Matti