Installing Glue

Glue only depends on one external library, PIL. PIL is a graphic library for python and it’s used to create the sprite images.

By default some Linux distributions and OSX don’t have the required codecs to manipulate jpeg images so it’s necessary to install them manually.

OSX

If you are using OSX, the easiest way to install the jpeg decoder is using Homebrew. Before installing Homebrew you’ll need to install Xcode, then you can follow these steps:

$ sudo brew install jpeg

$ sudo pip install glue
# or
$ sudo easy_install glue

Debian/Ubuntu

If you are using Debian/Ubuntu installing glue is really easy:

$ apt-get install libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev zlib1g-dev

$ sudo pip install glue
# or
$ sudo easy_install glue

Windows

  1. Install Python, if not yet available. Python 2.7.2 Windows installer.
  2. Install PIL, check this website for a matching version (PIL-1.1.7 for Python 2.7)
  3. Install Python’s easy_install easy_install installer for Python 2.7.
  4. Add Python’s Scripts dir to your Path. Add ;C:\Python27\Scripts to the end of the line.
  5. Start the cmd and type
$ easy_install glue
  1. Easy isn’t?

Development version

The source code of Glue is available on Github https://github.com/jorgebastida/glue/.

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