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I'm on a university machine so I have no root access and I'm trying to use the drawing libraries from SimpleCV.

As it is I have pygame installed without font but the drawing functions appear to require that I have font available. With some googling I have found that sdl_font is the dependency and have compiled it into a folder in my home directory.

My question is: How do I convince pygame to recognise that library's location when installing?

I've tried adding the lib directory under my sdl_font install directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH to no avail.

KitB
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  • There's a path to the SDL files in [Setup.in](https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/src/0ca386dee6c1/Setup.in). Maybe try munging that? – AdamKG Jan 24 '12 at 19:02
  • I've actually figured it out: I needed to set the environment variable "LOCALBASE" to contain the installation directory. I would answer myself but I'm not allowed to yet. – KitB Jan 24 '12 at 19:06

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Have you thought about trying pyglet? http://www.pyglet.org/

It has "No external dependencies or installation requirements."

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