Re: [pygame] Re: pygame sdl_image png/jpeg support

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't tested this myself, but I am pretty sure that 

ORIGLIBDIRS="/lib:/lib/`uname -i`-linux-gnu:/lib64:/X11R6/lib"

will be correct for your system. Have you tried it yet? I don't think 
you will need to manually hunt down the locations of the libs.

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James

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:12:37AM -0800, AntCox wrote:
> Thank you James. When I work out where the correct libs have been
> installed should those locations be appended to the string assigned to
> ORIGLIBDIRS or just replace what Chris has in there?
> 
> On Feb 14, 6:01 pm, James Paige <B...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > He did already :)
> >
> > > ORIGLIBDIRS="/lib:/lib/`uname -i`-linux-gnu:/lib64:/X11R6/lib" \
> > > python setup.py build
> >
> > the first line puts the lib location for your system into the
> > ORIGLIBDIRS environment variable. Then when you run setup.py in the
> > second line, setup.py knows to automatically search the locations listed
> > in ORIGLIBDIRS
> >
> > ---
> > James
> >
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> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:51:30AM -0800, AntCox wrote:
> > > Hi Chris,
> > > Thanks a lot for your response. I think I understand what you're
> > > saying, that the png (or jpeg in your case) libs were installed
> > > somewhere the setup script is not looking for them. However I am not
> > > sure how to determine if this is my problem, and then how to fix it.
> > > Are you able to give me and pointers on that front?
> > > Ant
> >
> > > On Feb 14, 5:28 pm, Christopher Arndt <ch...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On 14.02.2012 17:05, AntCox wrote:
> >
> > > > > I am trying to build pygame and during the dependency check it is only
> > > > > missing PNG and JPEG support [...]
> > > > > SDL_image is installed with both png and jpg support libpng and libjpg
> > > > > and respective -dev libraries are also installed. [...]
> > > > > I am running this on ubuntu 11.04
> >
> > > > I had the same pronlem a few weeks ago. Search the mailing list for the
> > > > thread titled "Compiling pygame on Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric JPGE [sic!] not
> > > > found"
> >
> > > > Here's my solution form the last post in the thread:
> >
> > > > "For the record: here's a command line to compile pygame from a pristine
> > > > hg checkout that works on Linux systems, which use this new scheme to
> > > > install libraries:
> >
> > > > ORIGLIBDIRS="/lib:/lib/`uname -i`-linux-gnu:/lib64:/X11R6/lib" \
> > > > python setup.py build
> >
> > > > "
> >
> > > > Chris
>