Re: [pygame] pygame source compiling

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Peter Shinners <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> [...]
> > The config.py stuff on windows will automatically use all those
> > dependencies if it finds the "prebuilt" directory somewhere in a
> > neighboring directory tree.
>
> Which only works with Visual Studio .NET 2003 (Python 2.4 and 2.5 are
> compiled with it) as the config_mingw.py script uses the practical 
> pkg-config
> magic (sdl-config, etc) and another build routine, which was the problem
> DR0ID (and several others) ran and run into. Not anybody can afford to 
> receive
> a copy of VS.NET 2003 to use it, so the mingw users are lost at the 
> moment and
> even the Visual Studio setup took me ages to get it working correctly 
> the last time
> I tried.
I compile Pygame with MinGW 3.4.5 . To get MinGW to link to msvcr71 
(well mostly) I  replace "-lmsvcrt" with "-lmsvcr71" on line 54 of the 
MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\specs file. This makes MinGW default to use 
msvcr17.dll though, so has to be changed back for msvcrt.dll . There is 
another trick I use to catch non-standard C library routines that start 
with an underline in VC but not in Unix. I will look at including this 
information on the Pygame wiki.

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Lenard Lindstrom
<len-l@xxxxxxxxx>