Luke Paireepinart wrote:
Also - I was trying to make DLL's for Python in the past, and discovered the gnarly 'must have the same compiler Python was compiled with' error. Is that gone with Python 2.5?I've used ctypes to interface with a few different DLLs, and some of them were compiled with mingW, I think, and I believe Python 2.5 is compiled with Visual Studio? DLLs are only available on Windows. They're called .so files on Linux (and probably mac too.) Just add a line at the top of your script that determines using env vars what OS you're on, and load the correct file. If it implements the same features across platforms you shouldn't have any problems.Basically - if I go to the effort of making a vanilla C DLL, will it be callable from Python ctypes even though it was compiled with a different compiler? And will this C DLL work on all platforms, or will I have to recompile it for each platform and call different DLL's based on endianness?Don't you think it might be better to just work on pygame-ctypes a bit than to re-implement it?How do I make a PYD file?
Well, I suppose I could fix up all the broken references enough to try it out. I just wish pygame was receptive to other people's ideas. I've submitted improvements to the examples before, and added features like cross-platform 'full screen mode', but they never got put into the software.
I'll take another look at pygame ctypes later today. --Kamilche