[PythonCE] pygame / distutils

[Adam Walley]

Well, I have been attempting to get something working, but have been
struggling to get the SDL compiled correctly (without SDL, there is no point
in trying to get pygame working). In my investigations, I came across the
SCUMM forum. Now the SCUMMVM appears to be a fully working product on
various platforms including WinCE. My attempts to compile some simple test
programs using the SDL source available from the official SDL site failed
(mostly because the source will not compile 'as is' and needs some tweaking
which is probably beyond my capabilities). However, the SCUMM forum pointed
me to a set of libraries from 'knakos'. I quickly set up a new project, with
my simple test program, and lo! it compiled first time and tested correctly
on my WM5 device. I assume these SCUMM libraries have already been adapted
to work on WinCE, and since the SCUMM idea is to get retro graphical games
working, I think that pygame will probably get all the functionality it
needs from them.

Now, on to getting pygame working! I will attempt to get some of the pygame
source modules compiled as PYDs to see if they will import and work under
PythonCE. I have not yet attempted to get a DLL compiled using these new
libraries so may yet hit a wall. I will report back with any news.

Rene, thanks for your comments. It's nice to know there is interest from the
pygame side.

If anyone else would like to provide comments/advice/code to get pygame
working, it will be welcomed.

Adam.

On 06/08/2008, René Dudfield <renesd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> if anyone has any project files to build pygame on pythonce I'd love
> to have them included with pygame.  I'm an author/maintainer of pygame
> and have commit access to svn, so could add project files if someone
> makes them... I could also add a pygame download for python CE to the
> pygame.org download page.
>
> Or you could add compilation instructions to the pygame wiki here:
> http://pygame.org/wiki/CompilePythonCE
>
> I have a winCE phone so would love to be able to get pygame running on it
> :)
>
>
> cheers,
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