How do I install PyAudio in virtualenv on Mac OS X 10.7

Question

I have tried

easy_install pyaudio

and it doesn't work. I get the following:

Searching for pyaudio
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyaudio/
Reading http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/
Best match: pyaudio 0.2.7
Downloading http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/packages/pyaudio-0.2.7.tar.gz
Processing pyaudio-0.2.7.tar.gz
Writing /var/folders/vg/98k5hfl52m16wm45ckdx1_5c0000gp/T/easy_install-s1wLkT/PyAudio-0.2.7/setup.cfg
Running PyAudio-0.2.7/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/vg/98k5hfl52m16wm45ckdx1_5c0000gp/T/easy_install-s1wLkT/PyAudio-0.2.7/egg-dist-tmp-pFDrFR
warning: no files found matching '*.c' under directory 'test'
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-mno-fused-madd'
src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:10: fatal error: 'portaudio.h' file not found
#include "portaudio.h"
         ^
1 error generated.
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1

score 21 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 28 '14 at 19:24

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It seems that you have not installed Portaudio.
You can get it from Macports or Homebrew.

sudo port install portaudio
sudo brew install portaudio

edited Jan 28 '14 at 19:24

mabdrabo

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answered Nov 21 '12 at 13:07

The Unfun Cat

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Will this work with virtualenv? I would have thought it would be out of the python path Edit: sorry had a dumb moment! – gazzwi86 Nov 21 '12 at 17:29
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Or with homebrew: `brew install portaudio` – Harry Maclean Jan 08 '14 at 20:41
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If you're in a virtualenv (or using virtualenvwrapper), pyaudio will not find portaudio during install. [This answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/10290595/1386245) helped me out tremendously. – tim-phillips Mar 03 '14 at 23:22
This answer was the easiest for me http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33513522/when-installing-pyaudio-pip-cannot-find-portaudio-h-in-usr-local-include – Jonathan Hendler May 31 '16 at 18:29

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 13 '13 at 13:34

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Or with brew

brew install portaudio

answered Oct 13 '13 at 13:34

Gianfranco P.

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 21 '12 at 12:39

It's probably dependent on some C library which needs to be compiled and installed separately. Like whatever provides 'portaudio.h'. Most of these things are tested on linux which has package managers that can take care of this sort of thing automagically whereas OS X is non-free and has to circumnavigate licensing minefields.

How do I install PyAudio in virtualenv on Mac OS X 10.7

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