MinGWBuildingDependenciesByHand

From the zlib-1.2.3 directory:

sed 's/dllwrap/dllwrap -mwindows/' win32/Makefile.gcc >Makefile.gcc
make IMPLIB='libz.dll.a' -fMakefile.gcc

The make install does not work properly:

cp -fp *.a /usr/local/lib
cp -fp zlib.h /usr/local/include
cp -fp zconf.h /usr/local/include

Optional:

make test -fMakefile.gcc

From the libpng-1.2.19rc2 directory:

./configure --with-libpng-compat=no --disable-shared
make

It will print some stuff about only building a static library because "linker path does not have a real file for library -z". That is OK since it is in /usr/local where gcc knows to look.

Remove a duplicate line in the def file:

sed '222 d' scripts/pngw32.def >in.def
dlltool -D libpng13.dll -d in.def -l libpng.dll.a
ranlib libpng.dll.a
gcc -shared -s -mwindows -def in.def -o libpng13.dll .libs/libpng.a -lz

Only install the headers and import library, otherwise SDL_image will statically link to png.

cp png.h /usr/local/includep>
cp pngconf.h /usr/local/include
cp libpng.dll.a /usr/local/lib
cp libpng13.dll /usr/local/bin

From the jpeb-6b diretory:

./configure --disable-shared
make CFLAGS='-02'
dlltool --export-all-symbols -D jpeg.dll -l libjpeg.dll.a -z in.def libjpeg.a
ranlib libjpeg.dll.a
gcc -shared -s -mwindows -def in.def -o jpeg.dll libjpeg.a

Only install the headers and import library, otherwise SDL_image will statically link to jpeg.

make install-headers
cp libjpeg.dll.a /usr/local/lib
cp jpeg.dll /usr/local/bin

Optional:

make test

From the tiff-3.8.2 directory:

./configure --disable-cxx --prefix=/usr/local --disable-shared
make
cd libtiff
gcc -shared -s -mwindows -def libtiff.def -o libtiff.dll .libs/libtiff.a -ljpeg -lz
dlltool -D libtiff.dll -d libtiff.def -l libtiff.dll.a
ranlib libtiff.dll.a

Only install the headers and import library, otherwise SDL_image will statically link to libtiff.

make install-data-am
cp libtiff.dll.a /usr/local/lib
cp libtiff.dll /usr/local/bin

First delete the following three lines from the files

#ifdef __GNUC__
#define NONAMELESSUNION
#endif 

This fixes these outdated headers. Now from the SDL-1.2.12 directory:

export LDFLAGS="-mwindows"
./configure
make install

From the libogg-1.1.3 directory:

export LDFLAGS='-mwindows'
./configure
make install

From the libvorbis-1.2.0 directory:

export LDFLAGS='-mwindows'
./configure
make LIBS='-logg' install

From the smpeg directory:

./autogen.sh

In the following step you can add MMX support with the --enable-mmx option.

./configure --disable-gtk-player --disable-opengl-player --disable-gtktest
make CXXLD='$(CXX) -no-undefined' install

You'll also need to export INCLUDE="" for this... otherwise the configure script doesn't work.

export INCLUDE=""
./configure --disable-music-ogg-shared --disable-music-mp3-shared
make install

Dynamic loading of support libraries is disabled so that the DLLs in the pygame package directory are used.

./configure --disable-jpg-shared --disable-png-shared --disable-tif-shared
make install

The freetype Makefile will not build a shared library. But since SDL_ttf is the only DLL that uses it then freetype can statically linked in. To compile the static library go to the freetype-2.3.5 subdirectory and do:

./configure
make install

SDL_ttf is the only library that builds without a hitch. So simply do:

./configure
make install

To build Pygame with MingW but without Msys the dependencies are expected to be in the subdirectory prebuilt. Prepare prebuilt as follows. Copy /usr/local as the prebuilt subdirectory of the pygame directory. Next go into prebuilt\include and move all the header files in SDL and libpng12 into include so the compiler will find them. Now you are ready to execute setup.py from a normal command prompt, assuming the MINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY environment variable is set and the gcc binaries are in the executables search path:

python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32