On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Jason Heeris <jason.hee...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get a PyGTK app going on a Windows XP installation. It > requires PyGTK 2.17. I have Python 2.6 and GTK 2.18 set up just fine, > but of course there's no binary installer for PyGTK 2.17. So I grabbed > the source from FTP[1], along with PyGObject, intending to build it > under MinGW. > > But it turns out I need PyGI to build PyGObject, and PyGI requires > "Python development tools" to build, and searching the web for that > problem yields nothing useful. > > So before I embark on some odyssey of pain trying to get this all to > work, my question is: is there an easier way? A binary installer for > PyGI for Windows? A binary installer for PyGTK 2.17?
Hi, I have been generating the python installers for windows. It really is a shame that there was not a stable release of PyGobject and PyGtk for so long, so now we are in this situation where the last non-pygi release of PyGObject was technically an unstable one. I would not like predict we will see a PyGtk release before/around the time of the last stable Gtk+-2.0 series. This, and the fact that PyGtk has effectively been deprecated an replaced with PyGI makes me nervous. Anyway, the windows installers are built from the windows branch. I update this branch when I have managed to build a new installer. I have not yet succeeded in buildinga PyGI based on on windows. I need to update setup.py to add the necessary first. I will try to get to this over the next week but no promises. > > Please keep me CCd on replies. > > Cheers, > Jason Heeris > > PS. By the way, I usually work on a Debian Squeeze/Sid system, with > PyGTK 2.17.0 (installed from Debian repo). I thought maybe I could > take the 2.17 tarball and build it somewhere in my home dir, but: > > ~/Projects/python-virt2/pygobject-2.21.4$ ../bin/python setup.py build > --compiler=mingw32 --enable-threading --yes-i-know-its-not-supported > bdist_wininst > Error: distutils build only supported on windows Yip. I build the windows installers on windows. It looks like you are building on linux. If you want me to remove this restriction then convince me that it works - I am not interested in supporting configurations I cannot test. John > > Nuts. > > [1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.17/ > _______________________________________________ > pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au > http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk > Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/ > _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
