Re: [pygame] Pygame for py3?

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Julian,

Pygame builds with Python 3.1 on Linux. Though setup.py does it 
automatically, try:

python3 config.py

first. Then run

python3 setup.py install --prefix=<where you want it to go>

It will install Pygame in the lib/python3.1/site-packages subdirectory, 
creating the directories if necessary. Just make sure the site-packages 
directory is included in Python's module search path. Also check that 
you have all the required dependency libraries and their '<lib>-dev' 
packages installed.

Lenard Lindstrom

On 17/01/11 01:06 PM, Julian Marchant wrote:
> I can't figure out how to compile it for Python 3 (3.1, to be exact). 
> Running setup.py with Python 3 does no good (if I don't supply an 
> argument it crashes, and if I do it just re-installs Pygame to 
> /usr/lib/python2.6), and I don't see any arguments for where to 
> install, what Python version, whatever. Sorry if this sounds like a 
> noobish question, but what do "install" and "build" do anyway? does 
> "install" just do the same thing as "build" and copy the files to 
> another directory, or is there a distinction? I'm fairly new to 
> compiling things directly from source and install.html isn't helping 
> me much.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Sun, January 16, 2011 10:34:53 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [pygame] Pygame for py3?
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Julian Marchant <onpon4@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:onpon4@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > I can see a Windows binary for Python 3.1 on the download page, but 
> I don't
> > see a source package for Python 3. Can the source be used for both 
> Py2 and
> > Py3?
>
> yeah, same source.
>
> >
> > While I'm at it, why isn't there a Windows installer (or a Mac OS X 
> package,
> > for that matter) for Pygame for Python 2.7 listed on the download page?
> > Python 2.6 is a bit outdated now.
> >
> >
>
> we haven't gotten around to it yet.  There is a link to a 2.7 download
> on an external binary providers web page for 2.7 though.
>
> cheers,