Um, I believe you're mistaken. Though it's true that visual studio express doesn't *come * with a 64 bit compiler (at least on windows 7 and below, the latest one for win8 does) you can still download the windows 64 bit SDK and use the one that comes with that.
Sincerely, Clay Sweetser "Evil begins when you begin to think of people as things." - Terry Pratchett On Sep 3, 2013 11:53 PM, "Robert Grosse" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi again, >> >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Armin Rigo <[email protected]> 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. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > >
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