I’ve found that I can use the pip version of pygame (version 1.9.2b6) on Sierra, with a little bit of help.
It can’t find a few libraries, but it will find them if you copy them to /usr/local/lib like this:
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/.dylibs
cp libfreetype.6.dylib /usr/local/lib
cp libjpeg.8.dylib /usr/local/lib
cp libpng16.16.dylib /usr/local/lib
cp libportmidi.dylib /usr/local/lib
cd /usr/local/lib
ln -s libfreetype.6.dylib libfreetype.dylib
ln -s libjpeg.8.dylib libjpeg.dylib
ln -s libpng16.16.dylib libpng.dylib
Loading png and jpg images work just fine at this point.
A few things still don’t work:
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pygame.mixer.music does not work, as it relies on libsmpeg.dylib which isn’t available
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pygame.font.SysFont and pygame.font.get_fonts don’t work, and produce a dialog asking about installing X11
I’ve worked around the SysFont problem by using pygame.font.Font instead and giving it direct pathnames to the fonts stored in /System/Library/Fonts and /Library/Fonts. It’s ugly (and
not very portable) but works as a stopgap until the final 1.9.2 release comes out which will hopefully have these issues resolved.
Andrew Merrill
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From:
<owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx> on behalf of Thomas Kluyver <takowl@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: pygame-users <pygame-users@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, October 28, 2016 at 1:42 AM
To: pygame-users <pygame-users@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pygame] Pygame with Sierra
On 28 October 2016 at 02:42, Jeffrey Danowitz <danowitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyway, when I actually do pygame.version.ver I get 1.9.2b6 - the one from pip, and this is from the anaconda python. So apparently the newer version was linked.
The version from pip seems to have some issues with png loading:
https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/issues/300/os-x-wheels-dmg-and-zip-builds-with-travis
So you may want to use the conda version for now, even if it's a bit older.
Thomas