Looks like pypy now can build numpy. Well, a slightly modified numpy.

  1. Get default branch of pypy. be careful cause the developers don’t maintain default branch compilable. Revision 84341 (c86b42dd7613) works for me.

  2. compile using

     ./rpython/bin/rpython -O2 ./pypy/goal/targetpypystandalone.py --withoutmod-micronumpy

  3. Create package and vitual environment. Something like this:

     ./pypy/tool/release/package.py --targetdir ./my_builds/build.tar.bz2 --builddir ./tmp/ --nostrip --archive-name pypy_84341

    Needed to copy pypy-c and libpypy to pypy/goal beforehand.

  4. Clone and follow instructions from https://github.com/pypy/numpy/commits/cpyext-ext Revision 3299d0d76fdb831fbcb4429a89c1f53bb36ea07f worked for me

    UPDATE: link doesn’t work any more. try to find corresponding link in bitbucket->pypy/

     Testing results:
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 Ran 5900 tests in 78.216s

 FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=3, SKIP=6, errors=218, failures=83)

scipy can be compiled if disabling submodules io/matlab and spatial. Though is still doesn’t work.