I’ve faced some problems trying to install kivy on my Mac OS using instructions on https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-osx.html. And now I have some experience that can be useful.
I could not find some special contact for this type of problems on Contact Us page (https://kivy.org/docs/contact.html). That is why I write it here.
My Mac OS X version is 10.11.4 El Capitan.
I tried to install kivy by instructions «Using MacPorts with pip» https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-osx.html
- Install MacPorts. It’s OK.
I’ve used the package for El Capitan:
MacPorts-2.3.4-10.11-ElCapitan.pkg
- Install and set Python 3.4 as the default. Here I had to use sudo.
$sudo port install python34
$sudo port select --set python python34
- Install and set pip as the default. Here is wrong name pip-34. Right commands:
$sudo port install py34-pip
$sudo port select --set pip pip34
- Install the requirements using Macports. It’s OK except sudo:
$sudo port install libsdl2 libsdl2_image libsdl2_ttf libsdl2_mixer
- Install cython 0.23 and kivy using pip
$pip install -I Cython==0.23
- Install cython 0.23 and kivy using pip. It’s OK. I tried only development version.
I hope my notes will be helpful for someone.