Author: Ronan Lamy <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r89847:31ec34667797 Date: 2017-01-30 17:34 +0000 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/31ec34667797/
Log: document cffi as a build-time requirement diff --git a/pypy/doc/build.rst b/pypy/doc/build.rst --- a/pypy/doc/build.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/build.rst @@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ .. _`arm document`: http://rpython.readthedocs.org/en/latest/arm.html .. _`RPython documentation`: http://rpython.readthedocs.org +The host Python needs to have CFFI installed. If translating on PyPy, CFFI is +already installed. If translating on CPython, you need to install it, e.g. +using ``pip install cffi``. To build PyPy on Unix using the C translation backend, you need at least a C compiler and ``make`` installed. Further, some optional modules have additional _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
