Actually it has gotten easier. I automated the dependency build process
using a single standalone Python program, build_deps.py. All that is
needed is to obtain the necessary libraries and MinGW/Msys tools. The
builder will first reconfigure MinGW for msvcr71.dll. Then it will build
all the libraries and install them into the Msys directory structure.
All this can be done from the Windows command prompt. Expect it to take
several hours though. Next the Pygame config.py script is run from the
Msys console. Make sure the Python directory is in the Msys PATH.
Finally setup.py can be run from the command prompt to build and install
Pygame itself. All the necessary libraries will be copied to the pygame
package.
build_deps.py is included in with the Pygame source at SVN. But if there
is the interest I will consider releasing a prebuilt dependencies zip
file. Then only MinGW is needed.
Lenard
René Dudfield wrote:
Nice work!
I haven't tried it yet, but
Instructions for building on windows with the free native gcc
compiler(mingw) are here:
http://pygame.org/wiki/MingW
