PyGame running on the TizenConf Developer Device

 
This article was Originally posted at thp.io:
How to get Python and related libraries / packages running on Tizen (1.0 “Larkspur”, as shipped on the TizenConf developer device).
Prerequisites:

• A device with Tizen 1.0 “Larkspur” installed (emulator might work too, but untested)
• The Scratchbox Build System set up for Tizen: SBS
• The “sdb” utility from the Tizen SDK (usually installed as SDK/sdb/sdb)

Building Python 2.7 from source

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Building SDL 1.2, PyGame and related libraries

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Build order (prefix is always /opt/sdl-1.2.15/):

• SDL 1.2.15
• SDL_ttf 2.0.11, with: freetype 2.4.9
• SDL_image 1.2.12, with: libpng 1.5.10, jpegsrc v6b
• SDL_mixer 1.2.12, with: libogg 1.3.0, libvorbis 1.3.3, smpeg SVN
• PyGame 1.9.1 (requires all of the above + Python)

./configure line needed to find some libraries:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/sdl-1.2.15/lib/pkgconfig/ ./configure \
    --prefix=/opt/sdl-1.2.15/ \
    --with-sdl-prefix=/opt/sdl-1.2.15/ \
    CPPFLAGS="-I /opt/sdl-1.2.15/include/" \
    LDFLAGS="-L/opt/sdl-1.2.15/lib/"

jpegsrc needs make install-lib in addition to make install to build. Also, you need to add -fPIC to CFLAGS in jpegsrc’s Makefile.

Downloads

• All-in-one package: pygame_tizen.tgz
  (Python 2.7.3, SDL 1.2.15, PyGame 1.9.1 and dependencies)
• Download source tarballs from Sourceforge.net

Installation

1. Download pygame_tizen.tgz from above
2. Copy to device: sdb push pygame_tizen.tgz /root/
3. Connect to shell: sdb shell
4. Extract archive: tar xvzf /root/pygame_tizen.tgz -C /
5. Test if Python works: /opt/python/bin/python
6. If you get greeted by a Python shell, congratulations! (otherwise, contact me)