[PythonCE] pygame / distutils

[Adam Walley]

Christopher and Jared,

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.

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).

Anyhow, I will attempt to get something working, and if it gives respectable
results I will report back.

Thanks again for your input.

Adam

On 26/07/2008, Christopher Fairbairn <christopher at christec.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat 26/07/08 05:13 , "Adam Walley" adam.walley at gmail.com sent:
> > - is there already a way to get distutils working with PythonCE?
>
> There has been recent discussions about this, but at current I don't
> bieleve there is anything available.
>
> With respect to SDL and pygame it should be fairly easy to get the various
> python modules compiled. There have been a couple of
> releases built for PythonCE in the past and I've personally compiled from
> source a couple of times.
>
> The SDL project has an additional ZIP file that contains Windows CE (Pocket
> PC) compatible project files that will allow you to
> build a suitable dll.
>
> If you look at the distutils based installation files for the pygame
> distribution you can determine which source files need to be
> compiled into the various python modules (*.pyd). What I did was then
> manually create project files for Visual Studio to build
> these DLLs (you will need a source release of PythonCE itself for this, as
> to build a module you will require the python header
> files).
>
> 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
> registry settings etc involved.
>
> 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
> modifications. For example they commonly request a window size which is
> larger than the PDA's screen, and don't account for the
> lack of current working directory support when specifying file names for
> bitmap resources etc.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Christopher Fairbairn
>
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