Re: [pygame] Compiling pygame on OSX without SDL.framework

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Mullen wrote:
> I have sdl and other packages installed to ~/Local in a
> unix fashion (~/Local/include, ~/Local/bin etc).  The pygame config.py
> seems unable to locate SDL

From my experience, it's *much* easier to compile pygame
against a framework version of SDL on MacOSX. Try putting
SDL.framework, SDL_image.framework, etc. from the binary
distributions of the SDL libraries into your
~/Library/Frameworks.

Also, if you haven't done so already, it's probably a
good idea to make a private installation of Python itself
from source (as a framework in ~/Library/Frameworks),
rather than trying to use the system one. You're less
likely to have trouble with version conflicts then, since
you can use whatever Python version you need, and you can
let all your Python extensions install themselves where
they naturally want to go.

--
Greg