Re: [pygame] AGG library

["Brian Fisher" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  AGG may be "templated", but it is not a template library. After
>  downloading it I notice the first step is to run automake. There is a
>  source directory full of .cpp files that need compiling to libraries.
>  Now we have a problem. We would have both a C++ Python extension module
>  and separate C++ dependencies. And I am reasonably sure that the
>  extension module and dependencies will have to be built with the same
>  C++ compiler to work. So for Windows their is no including the AGG
>  libraries in the prebuilts package. They will have to be built along
>  with Pygame by distutils.
>
That doesn't sound right at all. There is no such thing as an agg
library. There's just source code and some example files that include
a portion of the AGG source. I think the only reasonable way to
integrate with pygame would be to have a C extension module that was
statically linked to compiled C++ source files.


>  The relevant pieces of AGG would become part
>  of the Pygame source distribution and presumably included in SVN. There
>  is also the task of working out the AGG build steps and adding them to
>  setup.py.
>
The first sentence here sounds exactly right for how I'd see it going
down - basically pygame would absorb agg source, just like it did for
SDL_gfx for transform and draw. The second sentence sounds like a
minor thing - the only "AGG build steps" would be compiling the cpp
files that expose extern C functions to pygame. I would expect that
works fine, cause I would think GCC's C++ backend is link friendly
with it's C backend, just like it is with Visual Studio.