Windows 7 x64 build about pymunk

[viblo]

From vb%[email protected] on October 25, 2009 13:42:35

Ill try to reproduce this on a win2008 machine, but if I cant get any useful info
there it will be hard to figure out the problem as I don't have any w7 (or even vista
64bit) to try on.

Status: Accepted
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[viblo]

From vb%[email protected] on October 25, 2009 13:45:55

mason mailed me that he got it to work by installing 32bit python and using mingw to
compile. If anyone else have the same problem, please try with that until the problem
is fixed (or compile chipmunk manually to 64 bit, see the README.txt in chipmunk_src
folder). And Ill gladly accept a patch for the problem (same with the other issues on
the tracker) :)

[viblo]

From [email protected] on June 05, 2012 15:07:20

Just commited a fix to make it compile on 64bit python. However now there are some runtime errors instead...

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[viblo]

From [email protected] on January 03, 2013 02:41:23

Have a Windows 7 x64
C:\python projects\pymunk-3.0.0>python setup.py build_chipmunk
running build_chipmunk
compiling chipmunk in Debug mode (Defualt, prints debug output and asserts)
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

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Errors while triying to run examples:
C:\Python27\python.exe "C:/python projects/pymunk-3.0.0/examples/arrows.py"
Loading chipmunk for Windows (64bit) [C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pymunk\chipmunk64.dll]

Failed to load pymunk library.

[viblo]

From [email protected] on January 03, 2013 14:40:07

The vcvarsall.bat error is probably because you try to compile with Visual Studio instead of mingw/gcc. Pymunk is only tested with gcc, and I doubt all compiler options are working with the Visual Studio compiler.

I googled the error and it seems like you could try this answer on stackoverflow to compile with VS: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2817869/error-unable-to-find-vcvarsall-bat/10558328#10558328 But the way I build it on windows is with mingw. You can specify the compiler to use with -c mingw32 as an argument to build_chipmunk. However, you will almost certainly get the other 64bit problems with that approach.

[viblo]

From [email protected] on January 03, 2013 14:42:11

Forgot to add: Note that 32 bit python works fine on Windows 7 x64 with the released pymunk, and you dont need to build anything.

[viblo]

This link might help explain the win64 problems: http://bugs.python.org/issue4709

[viblo]

Should be fixed with the new pymunk 5.0 release