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Snow leopard install instructions.
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Build and install
Install the SDL Frameworks
Install pyobjc (non-Leopard only)
Install Numeric
Install Universal build libjpeg & libpng
Install libjpeg (from source)
Install libpng (from source)
Install pygame
Enjoy!

here is a short instruction on how to build the latest version of pygame (1.8RC3) on Mac OS X: An alternative method based on macports and SVN is described here.

I recently installed PyGame 1.9.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) running Python 3.1 - check out the instructions at the bottom of this page: http://programming.itcarlow.ie/pygame.html - cheers, and good luck! (Paul Barry, Dec 2009).

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Snow leopard install instructions.

Set these environment flags before building...

export CC='/usr/bin/gcc-4.0' CFLAGS='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -arch i386'
export LDFLAGS='-arch i386' 
export ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386'

If you get this error:

/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/include/stdarg.h:4:25: error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory

This link has a solution: http://packetcloud.net/2009/09/22/installing-mysql-python-module-for-python-262-on-snow-leopard-using-xcode/

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download

first, get the following packages:

http://rene.f0o.com/~rene/stuff/pygame-1.8.0rc3.tar.gz
http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/software/pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz - (Not needed in Mac OSX Leopard - pyobjc 2.0 comes preinstalled)
http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/numpy/Numeric-24.2.tar.gz
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.2.16.tar.bz2

SDL frameworks

Tested with the latest python2.5 framework (included with OSX 10.5 Leopard):

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5-macosx.dmg

It will probably work with a python2.4 framework as well:

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.4/python-2.4.4-macosx2006-10-18.dmg

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Build and install

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Install the SDL Frameworks

Open the DMG files and read the included Readme files to determine what needs to be moved where. The normal process is to go to each opened volume (/Volumes/SDL_something) directory and run the appropriate following command:

sudo cp -R SDL.framework /Library/Frameworks/SDL.framework
sudo cp -R SDL_image.framework /Library/Frameworks/SDL_image.framework
sudo cp -R SDL_ttf.framework /Library/Frameworks/SDL_ttf.framework
sudo cp -R SDL_mixer.framework /Library/Frameworks/SDL_mixer.framework

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Install pyobjc (non-Leopard only)

Unpack the tgz

tar xvzf pyobjc-1.4.tar.gz cd pyobjc-1.4

Build and install

python setup.py bdist_mpkg --open

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Install Numeric

Unpack the tgz

tar xvzf Numeric-24.2.tar.gz cd Numeric-24.2

In OSX Leopard, you will need to comment out three lines (152-154) in /Packages/RNG/Src/ranf.c

//#if !defined(__sgi) //      int gettimeofday(struct timeval *, struct timezone *); //#endif

Build and install

sudo python setup.py install

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Install Universal build libjpeg & libpng

pygame needs universal binaries to build right, but libpng and libjpeg sources don't build as universal binaries automatically... so you probably want to download the pre-built universal binaries for libpng & jpeg from ethan.tira-thompson.com. However you probably don't want to build against the dylib's for libpng and libjpeg if you are making an installer or will be using py2app, because then your distribution's imageext.so will not work without your clients also installing the libjpeg and libpng pacakges.
Since the package above installs both dylib and .a versions to /usr/local/lib and the build process will use the dylib versions by default, this means you probably want to delete/rename the dylib versions

Install the package

sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libpng.dylib
sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.dylib

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Install libjpeg (from source)

Skip this step if you downloaded the pre-built universal binaries for libpng & jpeg

Unpack the tgz

tar xvzf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz cd jpeg-6b

Build and install

./configure make sudo make install-lib

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Install libpng (from source)

Skip this step if you downloaded the pre-built universal binaries for libpng & jpeg

Unpack the tbz

tar xvjf libpng-1.2.16.tar.bz2
cd libpng-1.2.16

Build and install

./configure make
sudo make install

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Install pygame

Unpack the tgz

tar xvzf pygame-1.8.0rc3.tar.gz
cd pygame-1.8.0rc3

Configure

python config.py

The output should be:

Using Darwin configuration... 
Hunting dependencies...
Framework SDL found
Framework SDL_ttf found
Framework SDL_image found
Framework SDL_mixer found
Framework smpeg not found
NUMERIC : found 24.2
PNG     : found
JPEG    : found

Edit Setup and put a '#' at the start of the line:

#scrap src/scrap.c $(SDL) $(X11)

Build pygame

python setup.py build

Install pygame

sudo python setup.py install

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Enjoy!

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