Pypy is supported on Windows platforms, starting with Windows 2000. The following text gives some hints about how to translate the PyPy interpreter.
To build pypy-c you need a C compiler. Microsoft Visual Studio is preferred, but can also use the minw32 port of gcc.
We routinely test the translation toolchain using Visual Studio .NET 2005, Professional Edition, and Visual Studio .NET 2008, Express Edition. Other configurations may work as well.
The compiler is all you need to build pypy-c, but it will miss some modules that relies on third-party libraries. See below how to get and build them.
On Windows, there is no standard place where to download, build and install third-party libraries. We chose to install them in the parent directory of the pypy checkout. For example, if you installed pypy in d:\pypy\trunk\ (This directory contains a README file), the base directory is d:\pypy.
This library is needed if you plan to use the --gc=boehm translation option (this is the default at some optimization levels like -O1, but unneeded for high-performance translations like -O2). You may get it at http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc-7.1.tar.gz
Versions 7.0 and 7.1 are known to work; the 6.x series won't work with pypy. Unpack this folder in the base directory. Then open a command prompt:
cd gc-7.1 nmake -f NT_THREADS_MAKEFILE copy Release\gc.dll <somewhere in the PATH>
Download http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz and extract it in the base directory. Then compile:
cd zlib-1.2.3 nmake -f win32\Makefile.msc copy zlib1.dll <somewhere in the PATH>\zlib.dll
Download http://bzip.org/1.0.5/bzip2-1.0.5.tar.gz and extract it in the base directory. Then compile:
cd bzip2-1.0.5 nmake -f makefile.msc
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 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).
Then, copy the file win32\bin\release\libexpat.dll somewhere in your PATH.
OpenSSL needs a Perl interpreter to configure its makefile. You may use the one distributed by ActiveState, or the one from cygwin. In both case the perl interpreter must be found on the PATH.
Get http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8k.tar.gz and extract it in the base directory. Then compile:
perl Configure VC-WIN32 ms\do_ms.bat nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak install
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