Re: [pygame] SDL ctypes ImportError

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

cool :)

If you want to make your improvements in the pygame subversion, let me
know and I'll see if I can get access for you to svn.

Otherwise, if you want, just send patches through to the mailing list
and I'll apply them to svn.

cheers,



On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:07 AM, PyMike <pymike93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Lenard! I got the lib to work without SDL having to be installed. I
> created a new find_library function, and then hacked the lib a little, and
> it works great! Thanks again :-)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If you go to the ctypes mailing list you would probably find me, though I
> am neither the creator nor maintainer. :-) The problem is ctypes does not
> search the module's directory for dll's unless the directory is path of the
> normal dll search path. And the ctypes 'find_library' function does not look
> in the current directory unless it is part of the PATH environment variable.
> So either C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\SDL has to be added to PATH or SDL
> and friends have to be placed somewhere in the existing dll search path
> (C:\Python25 would be one place, but probably not the best option).
> >
> > Lenard
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > René Dudfield wrote:
> >
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > pygame-ctypes has been abandoned.
> > >
> > > The authors email is in the docs if you'd like to email him.  You
> > > might get a good response on the ctypes list to your issue.
> > >
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:50 AM, PyMike <pymike93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've been interested in making something similar to pygame, but
> completely
> > > > in python. I came across http://www.pygame.org/ctypes/ and after I
> installed
> > > > the SDL lib I get this error when I run __init__.py...
> > > >
> > > >    Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > >   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\SDL\dll.py", line 221, in
> <module>
> > > >    _dll = SDL_DLL('SDL', 'SDL_Linked_Version')
> > > >   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\SDL\dll.py", line 54, in
> __init__
> > > >    _platform_library_name(library_name)
> > > >  ImportError: Dynamic library "SDL" was not found
> > > >    ...and I have all the SDL DLLs that are included pygame in the same
> dir as
> > > > the SDL lib. I want to be able to include SDL with the pkg and not
> have
> > > > users have to install it into their system folder for the python lib
> to
> > > > work.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> - pymike (pymike93.googlepages.com)