Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Does anyone have a better guide or series of steps to compiling pygame? Those steps should include properly install msys and associated packages. If not, I'll go over and start using the prebuilts. Thanks for the effort Lenard.
-Tyler On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <le...@telus.net> wrote: > Did you install the Msys autoconf, automake and m4 packages from > sourceforge? They are found under the MSYS Supplementary section of the > MinGW download page. I suggest using the most recent versions available. > > Lenard > > Tyler Laing wrote: > >> Its failing on SDL. I tried running .autogen.sh in the directory, and this >> is what I got. I just made sure all the extra packages had been extracted to >> where they should be... including the update automake, autoconf and m4 tars. >> >> $ ./autogen.sh >> Generating build information using autoconf >> This may take a while ... >> Can't locate object method "path" via package "Request" (perhaps you >> forgot to load "Request"?) at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/C4che.pm line 69, >> <GEN1> line 111. >> Couldn't find autoconf, aborting >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <le...@telus.net<mailto: >> le...@telus.net>> wrote: >> >> Which package are you trying to build. Unless the thing crashed >> completely msys_build_deps.py should have displayed a listing at >> the end showing where it stalled, that is, it will show which DLL >> were not installed. The packages taken straight form SVN may not >> have a .configure file. msys_build_deps.py will create those >> automatically for SDL, SDL_mixer and smpeg. If any other packages >> were taken from SVN then it will fail. To manually create a >> configure file start the Msys console, go into the package's root >> directory and type './autogen.sh'. >> >> Anyway, the general Unix steps msys_build_deps.py takes to >> installing a package are: >> >> ./autogen.sh # only for SVN packages >> ./configure >> make >> make install >> strip /usr/local/bin/<lib-name>.DLL >> >> The msys shell scripts run to build the packages are found at the >> end of msys_build_deps.py >> >> Lenard >> >> Tyler Laing wrote: >> >> Okay, thanks! It went past that, but now its getting an error >> that says: >> /bin/sh: line 17: ./configure: No such file or directory >> >> Any idea whats going on here? >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Lenard Lindstrom >> <le...@telus.net <mailto:le...@telus.net> >> <mailto:le...@telus.net <mailto:le...@telus.net>>> wrote: >> >> Hi Tyler, >> >> I wrote msys_build_deps.py and look after the Windows >> dependencies. I haven't seen this error before. I run the >> program >> on both Win 98 and XP. If you are using Msys 1.0.10 try >> upgrading >> to 1.0.11. I only user 1.0.10 because 1.0.11 doesn't work >> on Win >> 98 and I have limited access to XP. Msys 1.0.11 will be >> needed to >> build ffmpeg anyway, since the bash shell in 1.0.10 is >> apparently >> too old for the ffmpeg configure script. If you continue having >> problems then just use the prebuilt dependencies for now: >> >> >> http://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame/prebuilt-pygame1.9.0-msvcr71-win32.zip >> (for Python 2.4-2.5) >> (md5sum 0c9b5c65dbd10b5469d2523cf58b7890) >> >> >> http://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame/prebuilt-pygame1.9.0-msvcr90-win32.zip >> (for Python 2.6-3.x) >> (md5sum 8dcd7e7c840d656c3ca7576095777c81) >> >> Install the prebuilt directory into the Pygame root >> directory, run >> config.py and answer 'n' to msys built, 'y' to use prebuilts. >> >> I suppose now I must really try to get ffmpeg built. >> >> Lenard >> >> Tyler Laing wrote: >> >> Not python under cygwin. Thats a leftover string from msys >> using cygwin code. The command I was trying to execute was >> python msys_build_deps.py --all >> >> Python is installed. Msys is installed, but throwing >> that error. >> >> And no worries. I just wasn't clear enough. :) >> >> -Tyler >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Evan Kroske >> <e.kro...@gmail.com <mailto:e.kro...@gmail.com> >> <mailto:e.kro...@gmail.com <mailto:e.kro...@gmail.com>> >> <mailto:e.kro...@gmail.com <mailto:e.kro...@gmail.com> >> <mailto:e.kro...@gmail.com <mailto:e.kro...@gmail.com>>>> wrote: >> >> Tyler Laing wrote: >> >> <snip /> >> >> >> The error says that it "Couldn't reserve space >> for cygwin's >> heap, Win32 error 6" when sh.exe was executed. >> >> Why are you trying to install Python under CygWin? >> From what I >> understand, most programmers consider that a >> separate platform >> from Windows. You should probably try to install the >> native >> windows version, instead of the linux version >> running under >> cygwin. Sorry if I misunderstood you. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Visit my blog at http://oddco.ca/zeroth/zblog >> > > -- Visit my blog at http://oddco.ca/zeroth/zblog
