Hi, On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 20:10, Joseph Jenne via pypy-dev <pypy-dev@python.org> wrote: > I don't have much experience with the windows side of pypy, especially > on XP, but I would suggest trying to compile for your system, as I do > not know of any reasons for incompatibility. That said, perhaps using a > somewhat older version might be preferable, depending on the specifics > of your use case
Joseph, this sounds like very generic advise, of which Denis is likely aware. Denis, my offer to discuss things concretely on pyp...@python.org still stand. We are not aware of any WinXP-specific issues because we have never tried to build PyPy there. Likely, it doesn't work out of the box. My guess is that we need to remove some WinAPI calls along with the corresponding Python-level functions, and we'd end up with a separate build that misses some functions (likely obscure and specific ones from the 'os' module, for example). Ideally we wouldn't rebuild ourselves every release but let you do it. Whatever the result, we wouldn't do it for free, but if it's only a matter of carefully removing a bit of functionality then it can probably be done at a reasonable price. If you want to give it a go yourself, you're welcome too, and we'd be happy to merge a branch which adds a translation flag to remove dependencies on non-WinXP functionality, for example. A bientôt, Armin. _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
