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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat 26/07/08 05:13 , "Adam Walley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > _______________________________________________ > PythonCE mailing list > PythonCE@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce >
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