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

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Another update. I built Pygame for Python 2.6 on Windows. It used the 
Visual C run-time and passes most of the tests. Where it fails is with 
imageext. libpng13.dll uses function gmtime which is curiously missing 
from msvcr90.dll. I wonder where it went. Yet it is present in the MinGW 
export library so libpng13.dll builds without errors. This is the sort 
of pesky problem one can expect. An interesting observation, Python 
2.6a3 still loads msvcrt.dll. So must for C run-time purity. The Pygame 
installer for Python 2.6 can be found at the usual place, though it is 
purely experimental.

Lenard


René Dudfield wrote:
> Nice one :)
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > 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.
> >
> >