pip install pygame - SDL.h file not found

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MacOS Sierra

➜  fun_python $ pip --version
pip 9.0.1 from /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages (python 3.5)

pip install pygame is giving me the following error: src/scrap.c:27:10: fatal error: 'SDL.h' file not found, error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit status 1, #include "SDL.h". I don't see this SDL/SDL.h file under /usr/include/... folder tree.

gave me the following error.

➜  fun_python $ pip install pygame
Collecting pygame
  Downloading pygame-1.9.3.tar.gz (3.0MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.0MB 490kB/s
Installing collected packages: pygame
  Running setup.py install for pygame ... error
    Complete output from command /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3.5 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/lx/smky81v534q9ydghqkjbkqv80000gp/T/pip-build-to90wzsv/pygame/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/lx/smky81v534q9ydghqkjbkqv80000gp/T/pip-jhi5wezf-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5
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    copying lib/_camera_vidcapture.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/pygame
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    copying lib/_numpysndarray.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/pygame
    copying lib/_numpysurfarray.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/pygame
    copying lib/camera.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/pygame
    copying lib/colordict.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/pygame
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    copying lib/cursors.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/pygame
    copying lib/freetype.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/pygame
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    copying lib/sprite.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/pygame
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    creating build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/src
    /usr/bin/clang -fno-strict-aliasing -Wsign-compare -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -DENABLE_NEWBUF=1 -I/NEED_INC_PATH_FIX -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/include/python3.5m -c src/scrap.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-3.5/src/scrap.o
    src/scrap.c:27:10: fatal error: 'SDL.h' file not found
    #include "SDL.h"
             ^
    1 error generated.
    error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit status 1

    ----------------------------------------
Command "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3.5 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/lx/smky81v534q9ydghqkjbkqv80000gp/T/pip-build-to90wzsv/pygame/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/lx/smky81v534q9ydghqkjbkqv80000gp/T/pip-jhi5wezf-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/lx/smky81v534q9ydghqkjbkqv80000gp/T/pip-build-to90wzsv/pygame/
➜  fun_python $ 

Answer 1

This helped solved the issue. Use sudo if necessary.

brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf portmidi;
pip3 install pygame;
pip install pygame