Nov 8, 2010
Win32 Devkit November 2010 now available (and FIFE 0.3.2 coming soon) (now with correct links!)
Heya and welcome to a short news update at the blog. As pointed out in the headline: the FIFE devs were working hard behind the scenes and the release of FIFE 0.3.2 is pretty close. If everything goes as planned, the release will be shipped some time between Friday, 19th of November and Sunday, 21st of November.
So with the new release in sight, we wanted to fix some problems of the current version of the FIFE win32 devkit. Besides updating some tools (mingw compiler, SWIG, scons-local) that ship with it, we were finally able to track down the MSVC debugging issues. The new devkit ships with a custom built sdl_d.dll for MSVC 2005 & MSVC 2008 that fixes debugging for these compilers.
Furthermore the new devkit also introduces Python 2.7 support on Win32. Python 2.7 is now the only officially supported version of Python on Windows. So while you can still use Python 2.6 for the time being, you’ll have to manually update your build scripts in this case. Check out the details in the README that ships with the devkit, but keep in mind that using Python 2.6 is not officially supported anymore so proceed at your own risk!
We recommend to use ActivePython 2.7 in combination with FIFE on Win32, as the standard Python 2.7 distro has some PATH issues that you can avoid by using ActivePython: download ActivePython 2.7
The new devkit is available in two flavours:
We’ve checked that the installer is clean, but for the ones who are very cautious or prefer to have an archive that they can simply unpack instead of an installer, grab the ZIP version.
Let us know in case you run into any issues with the new Win32 devkit. The release of the new FIFE version is still over 1.5 weeks away, so we still got enough time to apply any necessary fixes to either FIFE itself or to the devkit.
You can preview the README file that ships with the devkit online. It contains all required information how to upgrade from older devkit versions to the latest release: preview devkit README in trac
Update
The link for the win32 installer version of the devkit has been fixed! It was linking to the ActivePython installer before, sorry for the trouble. Thanks to vtchill for the pointer 