Pygame install mac os

Installing Pygame on Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion

I decided to install and play around with Pygame today, mainly as an excuse to write some Python for a minor departure from all the Javascript/Coffeescript I’ve been writing lately. Unfortunately the process wasn’t entirely frictionless, due to Pygame not yet accounting for Apple’s move to XQuartz as the recommended X11 implementation for Mac OS as of 10.8 Mountain Lion. As a result I ran into some compilation errors while Pygame was building it’s native extensions, which fortunately were not too hard to fix as I had some familiarity with changes to X11 on Mountain Lion.

What didn’t work

Running pip install pygame would fail as follows:

While building the native extention ‘pygame.display’, Xlib.h (a particular X11 header, required by SDL) is not found, as XQuartz’s /opt/X11/include directory has not been specified to search for headers.

By setting some environment variables, we can configure the Pygame build process to build correctly. I found these in a few other blog posts, but they specified only -arch i386 for CFLAGS, LDFLAGS and ARCHFLAGS, which allowed the build process to complete, but import pygame fails (when running 64bit Python):

What actually got Pygame working

The environment variables (gcc flags) required to allow Pygame to correctly build fat binaries (for both 32bit and 64bit Python) are:

Then pip install pygame and python -c ‘import pygame’ . If no error is returned by Python, then you should now have a working installation of Pygame.

Additional details

I’m using homebrew-installed Python/pip, and I’ve set my $PATH with /usr/local/bin before the system-installed Python.

If you haven’t installed Python/pip via homebrew (you’re using the system-installed Python), you would likely need to run sudo pip install pygame .

If you’re using another install method, such as easy_install, this fix should still work.

Before running pip install pygame , I had also installed Command Line Tools for XCode (walkthrough), as well as XQuartz, and the following homebrew packages: brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf smpeg portmidi .

If homebrew fails to install smpeg you might need to do the following:

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GettingStarted — wiki

Pygame Installation¶

Pygame requires Python; if you don’t already have it, you can download it from python.org. Use python 3.7.7 or greater, because it is much friendlier to newbies, and additionally runs faster.

The best way to install pygame is with the pip tool (which is what python uses to install packages). Note, this comes with python in recent versions. We use the —user flag to tell it to install into the home directory, rather than globally.

To see if it works, run one of the included examples:

Next steps. ¶

• Having a go at one of the tutorials.
• Or dive right into the pygame Docs

Further info on installation¶

Hopefully the installation instructions above worked for you. If not, please read some alternative installation methods, and extra details below.

Wheels are available for x86 and x64 architectures on Linux and Windows, and for x64 on Mac. If pip doesn’t find a wheel for your platform, it will try to compile pygame from source (see below).

pygame requires a «newer» pip. If pygame starts compiling from source and fails, first try upgrading pip.

Raspberry Pi¶

This comes with pygame already installed on the default raspbian installation.

Windows installation¶

Make sure you install python3.6 with the «Add python 3.6 to PATH» option selected. This means that python, and pip will work for you from the command line.

There is documentation with python for the «windows installation steps»

Notice that this does not seem to work with Python 3.9 — use 3.7.

Mac installation¶

Recent versions of Mac OS X require pygame 2¶

If your examples aren’t running and you are using a recent version of Mac OS X; try this line to install pygame instead:

virtualenv issue¶

There are problems with ‘

‘ and pygame on mac, where it loses focus. More details here: details on the virtualenv issue. It does work if you create a venv with python -m venv however. Instructions if you want to use an virtualenv (some people have trouble with the window losing focus when inside a venv).

Anaconda Mac¶

(note the w on the end). If it doesn’t work for you, please see the /wiki/MacCompile instructions.

Unix Binary Packages¶

Many Linux and BSD distributions have their own packages of Pygame. These may have an older version of Pygame than the wheels, but have been carefully tested with other packages in that distribution.

Debian/Ubuntu/Mint¶

Fedora/Red hat¶

OpenSUSE¶

Arch/Manjaro

Distribution	Python 3 package	Python 2 package	Debian/Ubuntu	python3-pygame	python-pygame	Fedora	python3-pygame	pygame

FreeBSD also has an active pygame package. While techinicaly it isn’t binary, it is automatically built and installed by the ports manager. See the FreeBSD package page for more information. http://www.freebsdports.info/ports/devel/py-game.html

Gentoo has a builtin package for pygame. This is compiled for your system as it installs, similar to BSD, http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-python/pygame

Installing From Source¶

Compilation¶

Compiling and installing pygame is handled by Python’s distutils. Pygame also comes with some scripts to automatically configure the flags needed to build pygame. Use the «setup.py» script to start the installation.

The first time you run the setup script, it will call the «config.py» script. This will build a «Setup» file which stores all the information needed to compile. The «config.py» will do a good job of detecting what dependencies are available and where they are located. If it isn’t perfect, it is easy to build your own, or edit the created «Setup» text file. This «Setup» file is a simple Makefile-like text file. It defines variables needed to use each dependency, and then enables all the pygame modules with found dependencies. If you have trouble compiling, you should be able to easily fix any problems inside the «Setup» file.

Running the «setup.py» script will call distutils to build and install the pygame package. Distutils actually supports a wide variety of compile and install options. running «python setup.py help» will start to show you the different options available. You can change many things like install locations, compiler to use, and more. Calling the «setup.py» script with no arguments and it will just ask you if you want the default flags needed to compile and install.

Some of the .c files are generated by Cython from .pyx files. Running «setup.py cython» will update them.

Windows Compiling Info

You can compile pygame on windows with mingw (gcc for windows) and also with visual studio. Up to date details can be found here: CompileWindows

Unix Compiling Info

Compiling from linux shouldn’t give you any problems. One thing you must keep in mind is that most linux RPM packages separate the actual library from the «dev» files needed to compile. To build you will need to make sure the packages like «SDL-dev» are installed.

You can check to see if SDL is ready to be built from by running the command sdl-config and seeing if it is found. If the sdl-config script is not on the path (or you have more than one?) Set the environment variable SDL_CONFIG to its location.

Sometimes you will have the SDL libraries installed in once location, and the other SDL libraries in another. This tricks the pygame config scripts, but you can help it out by setting the environment LOCALBASE to a path prefix where the other libraries are. The common case for this is SDL installed in /usr and other SDL libs installed in /usr/local. The command for this situation is «LOCALBASE=/usr/local python setup.py install«.

Mac OS X Compiling Info¶

Up to date instructions for compiling on Mac OS X can be found here: MacCompile

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PyGame Installation Mac OS X

I downloaded Python 2.7.10 and I wanted to install pygame. I downloaded the DMG from pygame’s website (Version 1.9.1) and installed it. To test if pygame was installed properly, I opened IDLE and entered the command import pygame just for the following error to return:

I’m running OSX Yosemite version 10.10.3, does anyone know how to fix this issue and properly install pygame without any issues>

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This is the best method I’ve found for installing on OS X (and works with Python 3):

Step 1: Install XCode command line tools

XCode is the tool from Apple for creating Mac and iOS applications. It can be installed from the App Store (it’s free). When it’s finished, type the following at the command line:

Step 2: Install Homebrew (http://brew.sh)

Homebrew is a tool to easily install all kinds of software from the command line. It saves you having to go to a bunch of different sites and download lots of individual installers. Copy and paste this on the command line:

and follow the directions. You’ll also need to install Homebrew Cask (http://caskroom.io):

Step 3: Install the rest of the software

Now we can start installing all the requirements for Pygame. Just type the following commands one at a time and let the computer do its thing:

Step 4: See if it works!

Now we can see if it works. Run Python from the command line:

and try loading Pygame:

If you don’t see an error message, you’re all set!

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Then you can run Python scripts from the Terminal with python filename.py .

Why use Homebrew? So when you install things you can easily remove and reinstall them if they break, remove them if they’re misbehaving or you no longer need them, or update your packages whenever updates come out (you can do that with brew update then brew upgrade ). It also makes installing all kinds of languages and things super easy.

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BrendonYim commented Jun 28, 2016

I install all pygame follow all steps, but I got error like that

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rafajaques commented Apr 19, 2017

AFAIK, pygame does not work well with python 3.

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cbscribe commented May 1, 2017

AFAIK, pygame does not work well with python 3.

This is completely false. I have been using and teaching pygame with Python 3 for years now.

Also, these steps are all no longer necessary. This used to be the preferred method for OS X, but a few months ago Pygame distribution was updated and now all you need to do for all platforms is:

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SeanFelipe commented Sep 12, 2017

Thanks for the tips!

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tenzin113 commented Dec 26, 2017

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dhayden commented Jan 23, 2018

worked for me. I’m running MacOS with Sierra. Thanks!

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TedTheGreatProgrammer commented Feb 24, 2018

It didn’t work! Permission denied. I tried to install pygame but I failed.

Mac OS High Sierra

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bobbytoo2 commented Mar 14, 2018

It worked for me: MacOS High Sierra, but it only installed for Python 2.7. How do I get it on Python 3.6.4? My Python3 is downloaded through Anaconda, if that’s useful to know.

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oestrogen commented Mar 15, 2018 •

@bobbytoo2 Run the same commands, but with pip3 instead of pip , to install libraries for Python 3.

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IamSandeepKrishnan commented Apr 15, 2018

Can i install pygame without installing Xcode ? I am conscious that Xcode is a 6 GB file and i don’t programme in Xcode. I just need pygame but its failing to install without xcode —>

gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wsign-compare -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Ddarwin -D_THREAD_SAFE -DENABLE_NEWBUF=1 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL -I/usr/local/include/SDL -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/include/python3.6m -c src/imageext.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-3.6/src/imageext.o
xcrun: error: active developer path (“/Users/sandeepkrishnan/Desktop/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer”) does not exist
Use sudo xcode-select –switch path/to/Xcode.app to specify the Xcode that you wish to use for command line developer tools, or use xcode-select –install to install the standalone command line developer tools.
See man xcode-select for more details.
error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1

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MisterFili commented Jul 14, 2018

i’m also on a journey to configure pygame

if you follow this link HERE you will see examples.

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How to Install PyGame on a Mac

Installing PyGame on a Mac OS

This blog will tell you how you can install PyGame on a Mac OS

Sep 21, 2018 By Team YoungWonks

In this blog, we shall look at the procedure to install PyGame on a Mac OS (Operating System); we also have a blog about installing PyGame on a Windows PC. Now PyGame is cross-platform set of modules in the Python programming language. These modules are designed for writing video games. Thus PyGame includes computer graphics and sound libraries that have been created to be used with the Python programming language. W

Now how do we do install PyGame on a Mac? Let us start by looking at how one can install Python on a Mac.

The video below tells you how to do so.

Now that we have installed Python on the Mac, we can go on to install PyGame.

Installation of PyGame on Mac:

Start by opening Spotlight search bar on your Mac. You can do this by taking your cursor to the top right corner of your desktop and clicking on the magnifying glass icon.

Once you have opened the Spotlight search bar, type terminal in the bar to open terminal.

If you see a bunch of general options on the screen, it means that pip is already installed on your MacBook.

Now type pip3 install pygame as shown in this (below) image.

The installation will start at this point and you need to wait till the PyGame installation is done. You’ll know it’s done when you see a message (as shown below) saying successfully installed pygame.

To test if PyGame has been installed on your Mac, open IDLE by typing IDLE in your Spotlight search bar.

Then type import pygame as shown in the image.

If you do not see any error, it means that PyGame has been successfully installed on your Mac.

Shared below is a video explaining how one can install PyGame on one’s Mac:

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