Re: [pygame] pygame and SDL on osx

[Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>]

On Jun 13, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Daniel Bisig wrote:

> we are currently developing a shared library bundle on osx and linux 
> which relies on SDL. For this library we created our own python 
> bindings using SWIG. On osx, when loading the library into python we 
> end up with zillions of error messages of the following type:
>
>  _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x33b6c0 of class NSCFString 
> autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
>
> We are aware that this error message relates to the fact, that SDL is 
> not properly initialized. We circumvented the problem by first 
> importing pygame and calling pygame.init(). Of course it is not a 
> particularly beautiful solution to rely on pygame just in order to 
> make SDL happy. We would really like to figure out what exactly pygame 
> is doing to initialize SDL on osx so we could integrate this part of 
> the code in our library.
Look at lib/macosx.py or SDLMain.m.. you need an NSApplication running 
before you start to use SDL on OS X.

-bob

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