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Python Bindings - Windows

Postby davidmorehouse16 » 10 May 2009 03:42

I asked in irc how to use vlc for a python program I am making and I was told to use libvlc (I was going to use http to avoid the headache of getting the python bindings) so I decided I tried another time to get the python bindings, so again I followed the wiki instructions and came into and error, there is no binding folder for the tarball sources (why not?) so after installing cygwin's git and trying once to get the git source and again another time, successfully, I then followed the wiki instructions again to create the python bindings, I got 9.9a's source and I had the git source, I created a .libs directory in vlc\src\, and copied libvlc from the 9.9a 7zip archive (unzipped it first) I then navigated to the python bindings in cmd (windows command prompt) and typed python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 and it failed Paste: (http://paste.pocoo.org/show/116457/), so I tried setup.py build -c=mingw32 and it gave me another error Paste: (http://paste.pocoo.org/). I have also tried the bindings another person made (google code) but they didn't work :(, it also seems the person who created them and is using mplayer anyways links Googe CODE: http://code.google.com/p/pyvlc/ Blog Posting on why he stopped using VLC (for the curious): http://codeslash.blogspot.com/2008/11/v ... gress.html
Now I am stuck, so here I have some questions.
1) What am I doing wrong that is causing the build to fail?
2) Why can't they be available like the Java Bindings?

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Re: Python Bindings - Windows

Postby VLC_help » 10 May 2009 15:37

2) Why can't they be available like the Java Bindings?
Either there isn't regular maintainer for this, or he/she doesn't want to do it.

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Re: Python Bindings - Windows

Postby davidmorehouse16 » 16 May 2009 21:36

Any help on the actual issue of creating the python bindings? :)

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Re: Python Bindings - Windows

Postby VLC_help » 17 May 2009 18:52

You might get better help from IRC or from mailing list.


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