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uvloop pypy3.9 installing problem

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, python
Domain
backend, networking

Research direction

Start with uvloop/includes/compat.h and the generated uvloop/loop.c, then inspect how Python.h is included when installing on PyPy 3.9. Done means the package installs on PyPy 3.9 without the PyContext_CopyCurrent implicit-declaration error.

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Description

I've pypy3.9 and got this issue when try to install uvloop via pip
In file included from uvloop/loop.c:767: uvloop/includes/compat.h:74:12: error: implicit declaration of function 'PyContext_CopyCurrent' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration] return PyContext_CopyCurrent();
I opened compat.h and it seems to have problems with including "Python.h".

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