[Pyode-user] Compiling PyODE

[Paul K. <pki...@in...>]

OK, some notes for Windows users wanting to recompile PyODE.  You will
need a C compiler installed on your system.  I use VC6.
 
1)       Download ODE source.  If you are using MSVC, open the ODE
workspace, and in the Project Settings for ODE, change "Use run-time
library" to Multithreaded (from Multithreaded DLL).  Also with MSVC,
copy the appropriate config from the the _configs directory into the
include\ode directory (and rename that file to config.h).  Compile.
 
2)       Install Pyrex (I'm using version 0.9.3).  I installed it under
the same main directory as ODE and PyODE.
 
3)       Unzip the PyODE into a directory.  Edit the setup.py file in
that directory and point ODE_BASE to you ODE directory (ie."..\ODE-0.5")
 
4)       Because for some reason Python .py file will not run from a DOS
cmd line on my system, I also changed the "cmd = " line in setup.py to:
        cmd = "\"\Program Files\Python22\python\"
..\pyrex-0.9.3\pyrexc.py -o ode.c -I. -Isrc src/ode.pyx"
 
5)       Now go to DOS, and get to the PyODE directory.  Type:
       "\program files\python22\python" setup.py install
 
 
Interestingly, the recompiled pyd (PyODE1.1 and 1.0) crashes after about
30 collisions on my system (under a non-standard python installation).
It works fine running on Python22 or Python23.  So there is some bug
tripping up my non-standard python install that is getting through the
standard version.  The recompiled 0.35 works fine on my non-standard
python install.  So I've ported across the trimesh code from 1.1 into
0.35.