easy_install and pip do not install C dependencies, it leaves that up to you. I would recommend trying homebrew if you are not familiar with what it will take to resolve this yourself.
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Sean Felipe Wolfe <ether....@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey everybody, > > I am getting a pygame dev environment setup on a new mac powerbook ... > Mountain Lion. Not my favorite macosx ever, but somewhat better than > Lion. I sure hope Apple gets its OS department back on track. But that > is another discussion. ... > > Anyhow, I tried > $ easy_install pygame > > and whaddyaknow, it *almost* worked! Seemed to download the binary > from pygame.org, start doing stuffs, and it eventually crashed with an > SDL error. > > ---- > clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-mno-fused-madd' > In file included from src/_numericsurfarray.c:23: > src/pygame.h:106:10: fatal error: 'SDL.h' file not found > #include <SDL.h> > ^ > 1 error generated. > error: Setup script exited with error: command 'clang' failed with exit > status 1 > --- > > Looks like some SDL C dependencies aren't installed on my system. I'm > wondering how easy_install is failing to install the necessary > dependencies? How would one go about fixing this? > > An opportunity to learn more about python and easy_install ... :) > > -- > A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, > if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. > - Abraham Maslow > -- --Robert Deaton http://lushlab.com