[Pysdl-devel] win32 porting

[David C. <D. C. <si...@te...>]

Pete Shinners writes:
 > i'm eagerly pounding away on PySDL for windows. it's been a bit
 > of learning python extensions just to get it compiling.
 > 
 > well, now some of it is working, but some of it isn't.
 > 
 > most noticeably the video system. i've traced it back to
 > problems creating the window. it appears SDL uses argv[0]
 > as the classname for the window class. right now this is
 > NULL when running under python. i'm pretty sure that's the
 > problem. strangely i can't seem to fix this with simple
 > changes to the SDL code.   hmmmm..

This is very interesting. I've tried compiling under VC4, and I
believe someone else tried under ming32, but neither of us have been
successful. I have to admit I've been doing nearly all my work under
linux, and so I've been a bit distracted. I've also been creating RPM
packages for it, and learning RPM has taken up a bit of my time.

 > anyways, i'm wondering how things are looking for PySDL?
 > personally i'm quite excited about it, and am surprised there
 > is so little interest.

It hasn't been aggressively advertised, either on the SDL mailing list
or on comp.lang.python. Actually, as far as I know, it hasn't even
been _mentioned_ on either :) I haven't talked to Mark about this, but
my guess is he'd like to get the module to a pretty-much-completed
state before opening the floodgates. This is fine with me :)

 > has anyone had any luck in getting a win32 version running?
 > i've had to make many small typecasting adjustments to get
 > it working. i've also been adding a few functions here and
 > there (like sdl.get_error()) to help me trace my problems down.
 > 
 > 
 > also, has anyone gotten any work from the project owner, "mbaker"
 > ?? is the guy dead?? what's happening with PySDL?
 > 

While I can't speak to Mr. Baker's existential state :) nearly all of
the 'work' so far has been his product. I know he has several other
projects besides pySDL, but I have no doubt the project is in good
hands.

My documentation is nearly current, and I should be releasing my first
pySDL application tomorrow.

David Clark
si...@te...
Preliminary pySDL Documentation:
http://www3.telus.net/futility/futility/docs/pysdl/index.html