Re: [pygame] Pygame and Python 2.6

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe Python 2.6 extensions will compile with MinGW and distutils. I don't know 
enough about manifests to know why they exist, let alone how to use them. But 
building with Msys is another matter. Clearly the necessary manifest files 
don't exist in this case. That leaves compiling the Pygame for Python 2.6 
dependencies with Visual Studio 2008, a process that will take considerable 
time to set up, or link them against msvcrt.dll (like Internet Explorer).

Lenard


Quoting Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> dang - I didn't even know they had another new runtime...
> 
> according to this post though, this should already be fixed?
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-November/075473.html
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I thought while I had the chance I would try linking the Pygame
> > dependencies against msvcr90.dll using MinGW. It failed. The msvcr90.dll
> > that Python 2.6 uses is connected to a manifest. I don't know anything
> about
> > them. And neither do the unix build tools ./configure and make. So when
> > ./configure goes about creating its first little test program the program
> > fails because Windows prevents msvcr90.dll from loading. No manifest file.
> > And this is with XP yet. So I am stumped. I am putting this particular
> side
> > excursion on indefinite hold. I just post this as a forewarning about what
> > lies ahead.