Re: [pygame] pygame.font and SDL_ttf issues...

[Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>]

On Jul 18, 2004, at 9:31 PM, israel@uandmedance.com wrote:

> I'm on mac OSX 10.2.8 and I've installed SDL 1.2 and SDL_ttf 2.0.6  
> which is apparently what is required for pygame.font.Font() to work  
> but when I attempt to import pygame.font I get this error message.
>
> >>> import pygame.font
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: Failure linking new module: : dyld: python Undefined  
> symbols:
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site- 
> packages/pygame/font.so undefined reference to _TTF_OpenFontIndexRW  
> expected to be defined in SDL_ttf
>
>
> Would this perhaps be one of those shared library things that Mac os X  
> doesn't seem to handle as easily?  Have I missed some configure or  
> make flags? Should I be asking on an SDL list rather than here? I was  
> hoping some of you fine souls might have had run ins with this sort of  
> situation and would be able to lend a healthy dose of enlightenment to  
> my daily routine.
It sounds like you compiled against one version of SDL_ttf, but it's  
finding another at runtime.  Without seeing the linker flags you used,  
I'm really not sure.  Anyway, if you upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3, I can  
help you.. I don't have time to support 10.2 anymore.

-bob

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