Re: [pygame] What's next for Pygame project?

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15-07-12 06:48 PM, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> Hi Jake,
>
> On 15-07-12 09:52 AM, Jake b wrote:
> > Lenard
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> > What would we need?
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> >     I need someone to take over official Windows support from me,
> >     since I am stuck on Windows XP. I have the MinGW based dependency
> >     build chain working again for 32bit Windows, but did not get
> >     everything to build for 64bit Windows. So no official 64bit
> >     prebuilt libraries yet on the Bitbucket download page.
> >
> >
> > âI have surgery this week, but â
> > â if nobody âdoes this by then I will look into setting something up. 
> > I have win8 64bit.
> Building the Pygame Windows dependenciesâSDL, SDL_mixer, freetype2, 
> libJPEG, and suchâis not well suited to a buildbot. The default builds 
> of SDL_mixer and SDL_image are unusable with Pygame, as the working 
> directory is not in their DLL search path. This is where I could use 
> the help. But I am back to using MinGW/Msys, which takes some special 
> effort to set up. Maybe I can cross compile from Linux. Something to 
> look into.
Ha ha. The x86 version of Pygame, 
pygame-1.9.2a0-hg_5974ff8dae3c+.win32-py3.4.msi, works under Wine, a 
Windows compatibility layer for linux. Out of 683 unit tests, only one 
failed (for an obscure corner of pygame.font). Now if an x86_64 Pygame 
works in Wine for x86_64 linux...

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> > --
> > Jake
> Lenard Lindstrom
Lenard Lindstrom