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| author |   Matti Picus <matti.picus@gmail.com> | 2020-12-24 18:26:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Matti Picus <matti.picus@gmail.com> | 2020-12-24 18:26:12 +0200 |
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more tweaks to windows documentation
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diff --git a/pypy/doc/windows.rst b/pypy/doc/windows.rst index 62b755093e..441841beb1 100644 --- a/pypy/doc/windows.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/windows.rst @@ -5,12 +5,8 @@ RPython is supported on Windows platforms, starting with Windows 2000. The following text gives some hints about how to translate a interpreter written in RPython, using PyPy as an example. -PyPy supports only being translated as a 32bit program, even on -64bit Windows. See at the end of this page for what is missing -for a full 64bit translation. - To build pypy-c you need a working python environment, and a C compiler. -It is possible to translate with a CPython 2.6 or later, but this is not +It is possible to translate with a CPython 2.6 or 2.7, but this is not the preferred way, because it will take a lot longer to run – depending on your architecture, between two and three times as long. So head to `our downloads`_ and get the latest stable version. @@ -41,13 +37,15 @@ PyPy has a chicken and egg problem: in order to compile something we need ``msvc.py`` in ``rpython/tools/setuptools_msvc.py``. PyPy will prefer to compile with the latest MSVC compiler it can find, which is -a departure from CPython's desire to compile with Visual Studio 9. +a departure from CPython's desire to compile with the compiler used to compile +the exe in use. Translating PyPy with Visual Studio ----------------------------------- We routinely test translation of PyPy using Visual Studio 2019, MSVC160. -Other configurations may work as well. +Other configurations may work as well. You must use at least Visual Studio +2012. The translation scripts will set up the appropriate environment variables for the compiler, so you do not need to run vcvars before translation. @@ -158,7 +156,7 @@ If you wish to experiment with win64, you must run configure with flags:: or such, depending on your mingw64 download. -hacking on PyPy with the mingw compiler +Hacking on PyPy with the mingw compiler ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since hacking on PyPy means running tests, you will need a way to specify the mingw compiler when hacking (as opposed to translating). As of @@ -177,4 +175,3 @@ What is missing for a full 64-bit translation This is a placeholder for old links to this topic. We have :ref:`solved the 64-bit translation problems <windows64>` and there are nightly builds of 64-bit windows. - |