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get a binary package for your type of system and version of Python.
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This document will give you information on either type of installation.
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The first thing you will need is an installation of Python. Python
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binary installers make it easy to get this done. Pygame binaries
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usually come for the latest 2 releases of Python, so you'll want to be fairly
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Once that is in place, you want to download the appropriate
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windows binary. From the pygame downloads page you can find the .EXE
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file you need. This will automatically install all of pygame and all the SDL
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dependencies. The windows binaries have filenames like this; "pygame-1.3.win32-py2.1.exe".
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This would be the installer for pygame version 1.3, for python version 2.1. You
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dependencies. The windows binaries have filenames like this; "pygame-1.7.1.win32-py2.4.exe".
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shouldn't have trouble finding the correct binary from the "Windows" section
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of the download page.
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<a href=http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml>http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml</a>.
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installation package. This will add easy links to the different documentation
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and games that come with pygame. The installer for this is found
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next to the other windows binary downloads. The filename looks like this;
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"pygame-docs-1.6.exe". And this would install the documentation and
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examples for pygame-1.6.
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"pygame-docs-1.7.1.exe". And this would install the documentation and
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examples for pygame-1.7.1
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One other thing the windows binaries are missing is the Numeric Python
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package. You can easily install this separately and it will allow you to use
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<a href=http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/dev-python/pygame.xml>http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/dev-python/pygame.xml</a>
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<big><b><u>Macintosh Binaries</u></b></big><blockquote><p>
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For OSX 10.2 and aboce, binary packages are availaboe from Bob Ippolito's
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Package Manager repository. This package requires python 2.3, and does
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not work with the 'Fink' version of Python. The package and instructions
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are at <a href="http://undefined.org/python/pimp/">http://undefined.org/python/pimp/</a> and will automatically
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install dependencies. Instructions for making application bundles
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for OS X that use pygame are forthcoming, but read up on
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bundlebuilder in the meantime.
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<a href=http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml>http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml</a>.
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<big><b><u>Mac OS X Binaries</u></b></big><blockquote><p>
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For Mac OS X 10.3 and above, binary packages are available from
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pythonmac.org packages: <a href="http://pythonmac.org/packages/">http://pythonmac.org/packages/</a>
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This package includes almost of the dependencies required for pygame
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(SDL, SDL_image, etc.), but you need PyObjC 1.2 or later, and may
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to do. If you are using Borland's free compiler or cygwin, you will
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need an extra step. You need to convert the VisualC style .LIB files
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into the format used by your compiler. Both Borland and Cygwin include
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a command to do this. To convert the python library the command looks
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a command to do this. To convert the Python library the command looks
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like this with Borland: <tt>COFF2OMF python22.lib python22_bcpp.lib</tt>.
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libpython15.a</tt>. You will also need to do this conversion on all the
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Mingw is well supported by SDL, but a little rougher for Python extensions.
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instructions. Python 2.3 and OSX 10.2 are required.
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compiling instructions. Python 2.3 and Mac OS X 10.2 or later
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