Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: Changeset: r1277:ab9e53ebcfb9 Date: 2013-07-16 08:38 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/ab9e53ebcfb9/
Log: Mention Win64. diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ * ``python setup.py install`` or ``python setup_base.py install`` (should work out of the box on Linux or Windows; see below for - `MacOS 10.6`_) + `MacOS 10.6`_ or `Windows 64`_.) * or you can directly import and use ``cffi``, but if you don't compile the ``_cffi_backend`` extension module, it will fall back @@ -162,6 +162,20 @@ .. _here: http://superuser.com/questions/259278/python-2-6-1-pycrypto-2-3-pypi-package-broken-pipe-during-build +Windows 64 +++++++++++ + +Win32 works and is tested at least each official release. However, it +seems that compiling it for Win64 (explicitly *not* in Win32 mode) does +not work out of the box. According to `issue 9`_, this is because +distutils doesn't support .asm files. This can be resolved by applying +the patch from `Python issue 7546`_. + +.. _`issue 9`: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issue/9 +.. _`Python issue 7546`: http://bugs.python.org/issue7546 + + + ======================================================= Examples _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
