Installing pygame mac, python 2.7.9, issues with freetype and other dependencies

Question

I'm trying to install pygame on Mac, and I've been able to install the dependencies, however I'm stuck at this step

pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame

The installation fails at the certain point:

fatal error: 'freetype/config/ftheader.h' file not found

#include <freetype/config/ftheader.h>

How do I fix this, I'm pretty sure I have freetype (see below)?

I also noticed that even though I installed all the dependencies, I get notifications like these when compiling.

SDL     : found 1.2.15
Framework SDL not found
FONT    : found
Framework SDL_ttf not found
IMAGE   : found
Framework SDL_image not found
MIXER   : found
Framework SDL_mixer not found
SMPEG   : found 0.4.5
Framework smpeg not found
Framework CoreMIDI found
Framework QuickTime found
PNG     : found
JPEG    : found
PORTMIDI: found
FREETYPE: found 2.5.3
AVFORMAT: not found
SWSCALE : not found

Answer 1

I ran into a similar problem and the following worked for me:

First, find the location of your systems freetype include files with

freetype-config --cflags

For me, the first result looked like:

-I/Users/username/anaconda/include/freetype2

Now rerun the pip install but with the environment variable CFLAGS set to result of the previous step. Again, for me, this looked like:

CFLAGS='-I/Users/username/anaconda/include/freetype2 pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame