[SOLVED]:SDL2.dll & pysdl2 error - self built ubuntu14.10 VM

[lxrocks]

Just thought I would share this. Built my own Ubuntu 14.10 vm

and hit a couple of snags.

The python pysdl2 module would not load - fixed this by instllaing the sdl2 dev library and python module.

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sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
sudo pip install pysdl2

Next when I ran

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python setup.py install 

the install failed and I got this error

running install_data
error: can't copy 'SDL2.dll': doesn't exist or not a regular file

a DLL file is windows binary so it did not make sense on a linux install - so I edited line 66 in setup.py and applied the following quick and dirty kluge by replacing SDL2.dll with README.md - just so the script can get past the error and install properly

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bitcraze@bitcraze:~/projects/crazyflie-clients-python$ diff setup.py.orig setup.py
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<       data_files=[('', ['README.md', 'LICENSE.txt', 'SDL2.dll']),
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>       data_files=[('', ['README.md', 'LICENSE.txt', 'README.md']),

cfclient now works. Just waiting for my Crazyflie 2.0 to arrive and I can start playing.

[dbrgn]

I stumbled over the same issue this evening. Pull request is already here: https://github.com/bitcraze/crazyflie-c ... n/pull/133

[marcus]

The fix for this is merged now.

/Marcus