On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 15:13, John Stowers <john.stowers.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Which are the concerns? > 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. Is gobject-introspection already working in windows? Thanks, Tomeu > 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/ > _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
