Re: making windows compilation easier Re: [pygame] When is pygame 1.8 coming out?

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually it has gotten easier. I automated the dependency build process 
using a single standalone Python program, build_deps.py. All that is 
needed is to obtain the necessary libraries and MinGW/Msys tools. The 
builder will first reconfigure MinGW for msvcr71.dll. Then it will build 
all the libraries and install them into the Msys directory structure. 
All this can be done from the Windows command prompt. Expect it to take 
several hours though. Next the Pygame config.py script is run from the 
Msys console. Make sure the Python directory is in the Msys PATH. 
Finally setup.py can be run from the command prompt to build and install 
Pygame itself. All the necessary libraries will be copied to the pygame 
package.

build_deps.py is included in with the Pygame source at SVN. But if there 
is the interest I will consider releasing a prebuilt dependencies zip 
file. Then only MinGW is needed.

Lenard


René Dudfield wrote:
> Nice work!
>
> I haven't tried it yet, but
>
> Instructions for building on windows with the free native gcc
> compiler(mingw) are here:
> http://pygame.org/wiki/MingW
>
>