Luke Paireepinart wrote:
Alex - I'm having trouble with your pygame-ctypes.
First off - it installs into lib/site-packages/pygame? doesn't this
mean it conflicts with regular pygame?
Yes it does -- I wouldn't recommend installing it (as there's nothing to
compile, it will run from it's own directory.. just add it to PYTHONPATH).
(I don't have regular pygame installed right now)
That's lucky :-) Just delete the lib/site-packages/pygame and
lib/site-packages/SDL directories before you install the "real" pygame.
Second - I installed pygame-ctypes using 'pygame setup.py install'
The original 'pygame-ctypes-0.07' directory is on my desktop, and it
copied files into
'C:/python24/Lib/site-packages/pygame' and
'C:/python24/Lib/site-packages/SDL'
Seems reasonable, though I'm not sure exactly how windows lays out files.
Whenever I ran the example programs in
'desktop/pygame-ctypes-0.07/test' I saw this error message pop up and
disappear, so I
went into a cmd prompt and ran it so I could see the error message,
and it was
File "C:\Documents and
Settings\Rabidpoobear\Desktop\pygame-ctypes-0.07\test\checkkeys.py",
line 14, in ?
from SDL import *
File "C:\python24\Lib\site-packages\SDL\__init__.py", line 30, in ?
import SDL.dll
File "C:\python24\Lib\site-packages\SDL\dll.py", line 217, in ?
_dll = SDL_DLL('SDL','SDL_Linked_Version')
File "C:\python24\Lib\site-packages\SDL\dll.py", line 42, in __init__
self._dll = getattr(cdll, find_library(library_name))
TypeError: getattr(): attribute name must be string
Now that I think about it more, I'm guessing that
find_library(library_name) is returning None instead
of the library location because I don't have SDL installed.
Yep! Also I doubt it will work on Windows at the moment. Look for a
newer release over this weekend that fixes this problem.
So what I'm wondering is, if I just install SDL and SDL_image, mixer,
ttf, and sound, using the
windows installers, is it going to add it to the path for me so
pygame-ctypes will find it?
So long as all these .dll's end up somewhere normal like
c:\windows\system32, they'll be found just fine.
Also, I know it should be self-explanatory for a programmer such as
myself that a
ctypes module that wraps a C dll would need the C dll to be present
somewhere,
but obviously I was confused long enough to start writing an e-mail to
you.
Perhaps it's because I just woke up ;)
Anyway, maybe you should put a 'Don't forget to install SDL and
ctypes!' on the
front page.
That's an excellent idea, thanks. The other critical dependency is of
course ctypes, which *must* be 1.0.0.
I'll have something a little more Windows friendly for you later today.
Alex.
