ddtrace does not build with pypy

[brianglass]

I am attempting to use ddtrace with pypy 3.7. I can get it to build if I use ddtrace version 0.36.1, but anything newer than that fails. The following Dockerfile successfully builds ddtrace:

FROM pypy:3.7
RUN pip install ddtrace==0.36.1

However, the following Dockerfile fails to build:

FROM pypy:3.7
RUN pip install ddtrace

I believe the offending error for ddtrace 0.45.0 is the following:

ddtrace/profiling/collector/_memalloc.c:14:5: error: unknown type name ‘PyMemAllocatorEx’

[Kyle-Verhoog]

Thanks for the report @brianglass!

Unfortunately ddtrace historically hasn't supported pypy and lost pypy support when C-extensions were made a hard requirement.

We'll leave this issue open for anyone else who'd like to also request support for pypy.

[jacfabi]

Are there any updates on this feature request? Thanks

[kgriffs]

I'd like to request PyPy support. We have a strong use case for PyPy at work but lack of support by ddtrace is a dealbreaker. We could live without the profiling.

[piscue]

any updates? we are also lacking ddtrace as the only library in order to unlock better performance in our applications

[chirayu-miles]

I'd like to see support for pypy as well since we do use ddtrace and are switching some services to pypy.

[emmettbutler]

Manually doing what the Github Action was supposed to do (fixed in https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-py/pull/7835):

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