Re: win9x testers wanted. Re: [pygame] C file pointers and file loading

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is an update. The good news, SDL doesn't need a manifest to work 
with Python 2.6. It uses Python's. Why no one just tried using ctypes to 
loading my VC 2008 test SDL.dll from Python 2.6 is a mystery. But it 
worked. The bad news. I have yet to build all of Pygame's dependencies. 
The SDL_ttf configure script tries  using SDL.dll and fails. The good 
news. I know how to get around this, but it is somewhat ugly, well, 
mildly distasteful. Building the dependencies for Python 2.6 will not be 
a one-step process; it will take two steps. I will adapt 
msys_build_deps.py and add to the Python_2_6 branch. Then I will build 
the dependencies. Someone else will have to try and build Pygame using 
distutils and Visual Studio 2008 once the dependencies are available.

Lenard


Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> I am unsure what sort of bug report this would be. "Library built with 
> MinGW causes R6034 error when loading msvcr90.dll installed by Python 
> 2.6 installer"? I have to confirm this first. I admit the problems I 
> had were with a test program that did not used Python. It may be that 
> a DLL loaded by Python will use Python's manifest. I should check. And 
> I am still waiting for a reply to a bug regarding MinGW and distutils.
>
> Lenard
>
>
> René Dudfield wrote:
> > I think if you submit a bug report it might get a little more attention.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> >  
> > > I am waiting for a reply on comp.lang.python as to what manifest is 
> > > needed
> > > so SDL can use msvcr90.dll. How long until Pygame can be ported to 
> > > Python
> > > 2.6 on Windows depends on whether or not such a thing exists.
> > >
> > >