{"id":698,"date":"2014-03-12T23:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T03:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/?p=698"},"modified":"2014-03-12T23:01:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T03:01:28","slug":"installing-pygame-on-max-os-x-10-8-5-mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/2014\/03\/installing-pygame-on-max-os-x-10-8-5-mountain-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing pygame on Max OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first tried to follow\u00a0<\/span>this guide<\/a>, which\u00a0did install pygame but left it spitting this kind of error when I tried to actually use it:<\/span><\/p>\n

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Error (1000) creating CGSWindow on line 259'<\/code><\/pre>\n
That sucked, so here is an alternative.<\/p>\n
I assume that you already have a 64-bit version of Python 2.7.2+<\/a>\u00a0along with\u00a0pip<\/a> and virtualenv<\/a>, and the XCode Command Line Tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n
First, install XQuartz. It is an X11 server, which SDL needs, and which is no longer in OSX. The official version is\u00a0here<\/a>, but that site is flaky, so I downloaded it from CNET(direct\u00a0download link<\/a>). After running that dmg, you should log out and back in, then start the\u00a0x server (e.g. cmd+space, ‘xquartz’, enter). If it shows up in your dock, you’re good.<\/p>\n
Next, we install SDL. \u00a0Download the OSX 10.5 runtime library dmg from libsdl.org<\/a>\u00a0and run it.\u00a0Inside, just find the SDL.framework folder and copy it into \/Library\/Frameworks — you’ll probably need to enter your password.<\/p>\n
Next set the environment variables needed to perform the compilation:<\/p>\n
export CC='\/usr\/bin\/gcc'\r\nexport CFLAGS='-isysroot \/Applications\/Xcode.app\/Contents\/Developer\/Platforms\/MacOSX.platform\/Developer\/SDKs\/MacOSX10.8.sdk -I\/opt\/X11\/include -arch i386 -arch x86_64'\r\nexport LDFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64'\r\nexport ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64'<\/code><\/pre>\n
(thanks to james friend for writing the guide I linked above, which this is directly lifted from). The effects of these lines will only last as long as your terminal is open, so don’t close it until you get things working.<\/p>\n
You can now make a virtualenv, activate it, and install pygame:<\/p>\n
virtualenv game-env\r\n. game-env\/bin\/activate\r\npip install pygame<\/code><\/pre>\n
It should say something like:<\/p>\n
\r\nDownloading\/unpacking pygame\r\n  Downloading pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz (2.1MB): 2.1MB downloaded\r\n  Running setup.py egg_info for package pygame\r\n\r\n    WARNING, No \"Setup\" File Exists, Running \"config.py\"\r\n    Using Darwin configuration...\r\n\r\n    Hunting dependencies...\r\n    Framework SDL found\r\n    Framework SDL_ttf not found\r\n    Framework SDL_image not found\r\n    Framework SDL_mixer not found\r\n    Framework smpeg not found\r\n    PNG     : found\r\n    JPEG    : found\r\n    SCRAP   : not found\r\n    PORTMIDI: not found\r\n    Framework CoreMidi found\r\n\r\n    If you get compiler errors during install, doublecheck\r\n    the compiler flags in the \"Setup\" file.\r\n\r\n    Continuing With \"setup.py\"<\/code><\/pre>\n
As long as “SDL” was found, you’re in a good spot.<\/p>\n
If you get an error that looks like this at the very end:<\/p>\n
\/Library\/Frameworks\/SDL.framework\/Versions\/Current\/Headers\/SDL_syswm.h:58:10: fatal error: 'X11\/Xlib.h' file not found\r\n\r\n#include <X11\/Xlib.h>\r\n\r\n         ^\r\n\r\n1 error generated.\r\n\r\nerror: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1<\/code><\/pre>\n
then you’ve probably got to paste in the export lines listed above.<\/p>\n
If you get an error that looks like this at the end:<\/p>\n
src\/_numericsurfarray.c:1100: warning: implicit declaration of function \u2018SDL_FreeSurface\u2019\r\n\r\nlipo: can't open input file: \/var\/folders\/5y\/shcnnkg970n53k9bvdvngw8w0000gp\/T\/\/cc1KHqyH.out (No such file or directory)\r\n\r\nerror: command '\/usr\/bin\/gcc' failed with exit status 1<\/code><\/pre>\n
with something like this near the top:<\/p>\n
Installing collected packages: pygame\r\n  Running setup.py install for pygame\r\n    building 'pygame._numericsurfarray' extension\r\n    \/usr\/bin\/gcc -DNDEBUG -g -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -isysroot \/Applications\/Xcode.app\/Contents\/Developer\/Platforms\/MacOSX.platform\/Developer\/SDKs\/MacOSX10.8.sdk -I\/opt\/X11\/include -pipe -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -I\/NEED_INC_PATH_FIX -I\/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/Python.framework\/Versions\/2.7\/include\/python2.7 -c src\/_numericsurfarray.c -o build\/temp.macosx-10.8-intel-2.7\/src\/_numericsurfarray.o\r\n    In file included from src\/_numericsurfarray.c:23:\r\n    src\/pygame.h:106:17: error: SDL.h: No such file or directory<\/code><\/pre>\n
then you’ll need to double check that you installed SDL properly. If you try this over and over and it doesn’t work, you might try to play with the export lines to find your copy of SDL, or follow the guide I linked at the start, which uses homebrew to install SDL.<\/p>\n
If things are messed up, you can always just delete the SDL.framework folder, delete your virtual environment, and start again.<\/p>\n
If things look good, try running a sample program like the following:<\/p>\n
>>> import pygame\r\n>>> pygame.init()\r\n(4, 0)\r\n>>> pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480))\r\n<Surface(640x480x32 SW)>\r\n>>> pygame.quit()\r\n>>> ^D<\/code><\/pre>\n
A screen should appear, and execution should finish cleanly. If that’s the case, you can make games with pygame. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I first tried to follow\u00a0this guide, which\u00a0did install pygame but left it spitting this kind of error when I tried to actually use it: Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInternalInconsistencyException’, reason: ‘Error (1000) creating CGSWindow on line 259’ That sucked, so here is an alternative. I assume that you already have a 64-bit version […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}