Installation of pygame with Anaconda

Question

I have Anaconda 1.6.2, which uses Python 2.7.5, installed on a Windows 7 64-bit system.
I need to install Pygame 1.9.1 and this is not part of the conda repository.
I cannot run the Windows installer because Anaconda has not made registry entries for Python and the .msi does not recognize the Python version.
So, I tried to install Pygame from source. What I originally wanted to do was create a conda package as per the instructions here http://www.continuum.io/blog/conda As per those instructions, the package (pygame in this case) is first installed from source and then a conda package is created. But, I failed in the pygame install.
On running the setup.py file ("python setup.py install"), a run time error
"mingw32: required environment variable MINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY not set" is thrown.
After setting the environment variables, I ran the setup again and this time, the runtime error became "The dependencies are linked to the wrong C runtime for Python 2.7".

Error:

WARNING, DLL for smpeg library not found. WARNING, DLL for tiff library not found. WARNING, DLL for SDL_ttf library not found. WARNING, DLL for SDL_image library not found. WARNING, DLL for vorbisfile library not found. WARNING, DLL for jpeg library not found. WARNING, DLL for vorbis library not found. WARNING, DLL for SDL_mixer library not found. WARNING, DLL for png library not found. WARNING, DLL for SDL library not found. WARNING, DLL for ogg library not found. WARNING, DLL for z library not found. WARNING, DLL for portmidi library not found. running install running build running build_py running build_ext Traceback (most recent call last):   File "setup.py", line 491, in <module>     setup(**PACKAGEDATA)   File "C:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup     dist.run_commands()   File "C:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands     self.run_command(cmd)   File "C:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command     cmd_obj.run()   File "C:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 563, in run     self.run_command('build')   File "C:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 326, in run_command     self.distribution.run_command(command)   File "C:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command     cmd_obj.run()   File "C:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 127, in run     self.run_command(cmd_name)   File "C:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 326, in run_command     self.distribution.run_command(command)   File "C:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command     cmd_obj.run()   File "setup.py", line 352, in run     sys.version_info[:2]) RuntimeError: The dependencies are linked to the wrong C runtime for Python 2.7 

The distutils.cfg file in \Anaconda\Lib\distutils reads

[build] compiler = mingw32 

Please tell me what I need to do to install Pygame with Anaconda. I'm not able to find any information (barely any) regarding this combination. I would just like to add that Pygame was originally working when I had a Python 2.7.5 installation. The problem has come up now when I uninstalled my original Python installation and moved to Anaconda.

Thank you!

Answer 1

The easiest way to install Python using conda is:

conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/krisvanneste pygame

Edit (03/2016):

It seems like the package is unavailable, but you can use this instead:

conda install -c https://conda.anaconda.org/tlatorre python

Edit (01/2017)

The command has changed, now you can use:

conda install -c tlatorre pygame=1.9.2

Edit (07/2018)

tlatorre's repo is still valid but a little bit outdated, you can use cogsci repo if you want the latest version:

conda install -c cogsci pygame

Answer 2

In the Anaconda menu, choose Tools, then "open command prompt".

The cmd window will open inside Anaconda. Now type "pip install pygame".