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I've done tons of research on my issues, and I haven't really found an answer: I'm trying to use Kivy in Eclipse on my computer. I've got an environment setup already, and I installed Kivy and the dependencies just like this: https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-windows.html#

I copied the first bit of code from the tutorial on their site which should simply make a blank window, and upon running I got this error:

sdl2 - Exception: SDL2: Unable to load image
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[CRITICAL          ] [App         ] Unable to get a Window, abort.

Just from that, I found tons of people with the same issue. issue 3002 on kivy's github (sorry, I can't put too many links) suggests solutions for linux users, which doesn't help me.

This: Trying to run KIVY, for the first time suggests installing pygame, which I've done multiple times, but it looks like the last update for pygame was in 2009? (I looked at their main site)

Either way, I installed pygame and that didn't change a thing. I also looked at issue 3491 (again, can't post more than 2 links) which seems very applicable but suggests downloading drivers from my GPU vendor, which I have no idea how to do, or what GPU I even have.

Is there any solution to my problem? Do I have to try and figure out how to get correct drivers? Also, I am using WinPython if that matters, but it seems to work for everything else...

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Matthew Torrence
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  • Kivy no longer uses pygame. Did you install Kivy and its dependencies following the Windows instructions [here](https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-windows.html#install-win-dist)? – inclement Jun 23 '16 at 15:26
  • This error relates to missing SDL2 components, it probably isn't the GPU driver problem you mention. – inclement Jun 23 '16 at 15:27

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Paste output of echo %PATH% here. Feel free to cut of personal things, I only want to know if sdl2 is available on the path (which I think is not). If not, add it. Should look like this:

<python.exe dir>\share\sdl2\bin

If it doesn't work for you, well... I'm still sure it's deps & path-related error. I usually annoy people with a link to my installer's github repo when I see similar error. I have there this line:

set PATH=%~dp0;%~dp0Tools;%~dp0Scripts;%~dp0share\sdl2\bin;%~dp0Lib\idlelib;%PATH%

Put <python dir>\Scripts on path too, because of garden, pip and other stuff.

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