Installing PyGame onto Mountain Lion OS

Question

Okay, so I've completely given up.

I've tried about a thousand different walkthroughs to solve my problem, on every website I can find, but I either get stuck and no one knows the answer, or they just don't work.

So has anyone got an answer to installing PyGame onto Mountain Lion that they know 100% works and they can walk me through it as if I'm 6 years old?

I just want to run PyGame and this is driving me insane.

Cheers.

Answer 1

Ok, I'm running OSX 10.8.3 (Python 2.7.3), and I got pygame (1.9.1) up and running in about 15 minutes.

Here's what I did. I brewed my Python a long time ago, so I forget the steps there. I seem to remember editing some symbolic links in \usr\local. At any rate, I'll assume you can use google as well as I can to figure out what to do here.

1. download homebrew
2. brew install python27 if you don't have it
3. pip install numpy if you don't have it.
4. brew install sdl
5. brew install sdl_gfx sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf
6. Download pygame v1.9.1 source for Unix architecture.
7. cp ~/Downloads/pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz /tmp/pygame-1.9.1.tar.gz` or wherever. Go to that directory.
8. sudo tar -xvf pygame-1.9.1.tar.gz
9. sudo python config.py should fail with a hint to edit Setup
10. sudo emacs Setup, or your favorite text editor.
11. Look for the entries for SDL, FONT, IMAGE and MIXER.
12. Replace them with SDL = -I/usr/local/include/SDL -L/usr/local/lib -lSDL, FONT = -lSDL_ttf, IMAGE = -lSDL_image, and MIXER = -lSDL_mixer, respectively.
13. cd src, emacs scale_mmx64.c. Look for all occurrences of movsxl with movslq. You should find two occurrences.
14. cd .. and sudo python setup.py install

I only checked that I can load pygame from the prompt in Python, I didn't check anything else.

Refs:

http://jalada.co.uk/2011/06/17/installing-pygame-on-os-x-with-a-homebrew-python-2-7-install.html Error when Installing Pygame on Mountain Lion

Answer 2

If you have MacPorts installed, you can run sudo port install pyXX-game where XX is your macports python version from 24 to 27 and 31 to 32. This way it'll take care of all your dependencies automagically, and should theoretically work out of the box, assuming your system is set up to use macports python by default.