<div>Christopher and Jared,</div>
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<div>Thank you for your comments. Christopher would you agree about the sluggishness once pygame is running on a PDA? I suppose I am not too bothered at the moment. For my purposes just being able to access audio and drawing to screen would be fine - though I'm sure sooner or later speed will be needed too.</div>
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<div>One additional obstacle I face is some extra fiddling to get the compiling done on PellesC (I do not own VS and I believe the free version does not support WinCE compilation).</div>
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<div>Anyhow, I will attempt to get something working, and if it gives respectable results I will report back.</div>
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<div>Thanks again for your input.</div>
<div><br>Adam<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 26/07/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christopher Fairbairn</b> <<a href="mailto:christopher@christec.co.nz">christopher@christec.co.nz</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi,<br><br>On Sat 26/07/08 05:13 , "Adam Walley" <a href="mailto:adam.walley@gmail.com">adam.walley@gmail.com</a> sent:<br>
> - is there already a way to get distutils working with PythonCE?<br><br>There has been recent discussions about this, but at current I don't bieleve there is anything available.<br><br>With respect to SDL and pygame it should be fairly easy to get the various python modules compiled. There have been a couple of<br>
releases built for PythonCE in the past and I've personally compiled from source a couple of times.<br><br>The SDL project has an additional ZIP file that contains Windows CE (Pocket PC) compatible project files that will allow you to<br>
build a suitable dll.<br><br>If you look at the distutils based installation files for the pygame distribution you can determine which source files need to be<br>compiled into the various python modules (*.pyd). What I did was then manually create project files for Visual Studio to build<br>
these DLLs (you will need a source release of PythonCE itself for this, as to build a module you will require the python header<br>files).<br><br>Once I had all the pygame dlls compiled it was then simply a matter of copying them to the correct folder on the PDA. There was no<br>
registry settings etc involved.<br><br>One thing to keep in mind is that some of the sample apps within the Pygame distribution won't work on a PDA without minor<br>modifications. For example they commonly request a window size which is larger than the PDA's screen, and don't account for the<br>
lack of current working directory support when specifying file names for bitmap resources etc.<br><br>Hope this helps,<br>Christopher Fairbairn<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PythonCE mailing list<br>
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