Author: Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com> Branch: Changeset: r54734:d270e84ff61f Date: 2012-04-24 22:57 +0300 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/d270e84ff61f/
Log: update build instructions for windows diff --git a/pypy/doc/windows.rst b/pypy/doc/windows.rst --- a/pypy/doc/windows.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/windows.rst @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ translation. Failing that, they will pick the most recent Visual Studio compiler they can find. In addition, the target architecture (32 bits, 64 bits) is automatically selected. A 32 bit build can only be built -using a 32 bit Python and vice versa. +using a 32 bit Python and vice versa. By default pypy is built using the +Multi-threaded DLL (/MD) runtime environment. **Note:** PyPy is currently not supported for 64 bit Windows, and translation will fail in this case. @@ -102,10 +103,12 @@ Download the source code of expat on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ and extract it in the base -directory. Then open the project file ``expat.dsw`` with Visual +directory. Version 2.1.0 is known to pass tests. Then open the project +file ``expat.dsw`` with Visual Studio; follow the instruction for converting the project files, -switch to the "Release" configuration, and build the solution (the -``expat`` project is actually enough for pypy). +switch to the "Release" configuration, reconfigure the runtime for +Multi-threaded DLL (/MD) and build the solution (the ``expat`` project +is actually enough for pypy). Then, copy the file ``win32\bin\release\libexpat.dll`` somewhere in your PATH. _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
