In article <4f4c3f5d.4040...@chrisarndt.de>, Christopher Arndt <ch...@chrisarndt.de> wrote:
> Some people here on the list seemed to have had problems getting MIDI to > compile / work on Mac OS X with the latest pygame. > > I'm not sure which was the OS X version in question, but I have > successfully compiled pygame from mercurial with MIDI support under OS X > 10.6 and Python 2.7 from MacPorts. i'm one of those folks. I was trying to build a pygame binary installer for the 32-bit python.org python. A binary installer requires static libraries for anything not likely to be found in the user's machine. So I build dependencies from source and throw away the dynamic libraries, rather than using MacPorts or similar package managers. My problem is that I just can't figure out how to build portmidi from source -- at least on Mac OS X 10.4 (which is my usual platform for building such installers, as it turns out to be more reliably backward compatible) with gcc 4.0.1 (required for Mac OS X 10.4). The instructions are here: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/portmedia/wiki/Installing%20portmidi%20 on%20Mac> but they don't work. All other dependencies build fine. Thus the current mac binary pygame installer for 32-bit Python 2.7 does not have midi support (unless somebody has updated it). -- Russell
