Sorry, extended image module required

[HouWan]

My Info:

system: macOS Mojava 10.14.5
python: python 3.7.3

and I install pygame:

pip install https://github.com/pygame/pygame/archive/master.zip

Then terminal:

>> python3 -m pygame.examples.aliens
pygame 2.0.0.dev3 (SDL 2.0.9, python 3.7.3)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
Sorry, extended image module required

The problem with my program is:
Sorry, extended image module required

What should I do?

[HouWan]

Before, I used

sudo pip3 install pygame

to install pygame.

but, the problem becomes:
The windows created by pygame are blank，No image

like this:

[markph0204]

Tests to validate same:

• master (aka pygame-2.0.0.dev3) | SDL2.0.10 | Mac 10.13.6 | py3.7.4 - NO ISSUE
• master (aka pygame-2.0.0.dev3) | SDL2.0.10 | Mac 10.14.5 | py3.7.3 - NO ISSUE

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The error is coming from here

#see if we can load more than standard BMP
if not pygame.image.get_extended():
    raise SystemExit("Sorry, extended image module required")

Can you share what SDL2 packages you've installed? For example I have:

sdl2
sdl2_gfx
sdl2_image
sdl2_mixer
sdl2_net
sdl2_ttf

[HouWan]

I installed SDL as follows:

brew list | grep sdl

Result：

sdl
sdl2
sdl2_image
sdl2_mixer
sdl2_ttf

SDL Details are as follows:

sdl: stable 1.2.15 (bottled), HEAD
/usr/local/Cellar/sdl/1.2.15_1 (225 files, 1.4MB)

sdl2: stable 2.0.10 (bottled), HEAD
/usr/local/Cellar/sdl2/2.0.10 (87 files, 4.6MB)

sdl2_image: stable 2.0.5 (bottled)
/usr/local/Cellar/sdl2_image/2.0.5 (10 files, 285.0KB)
Build: pkg-config ✘
Required: jpeg ✔, libpng ✔, libtiff ✔, sdl2 ✔, webp ✔

sdl2_mixer: stable 2.0.4 (bottled), HEAD
/usr/local/Cellar/sdl2_mixer/2.0.4 (10 files, 313.9KB)
Build: pkg-config ✘
Required: libmodplug ✔, libvorbis ✔, sdl2 ✔

sdl2_ttf: stable 2.0.15 (bottled)
/usr/local/Cellar/sdl2_ttf/2.0.15 (10 files, 78.9KB)
Build: pkg-config ✘
Required: freetype ✔, sdl2 ✔

My pygame version is 1.9.6 ;Python is 3.7.3.
I am on the Mac，running the pygame program always gets a blank page.
But the same program, I am running fine on Ubuntu.

[illume]

I'm not sure what the problem is with building from source. Maybe you need to:

brew install pkg-config

However, you can also try the pre-release binary wheels like this:

python3 -m pip install pygame==2.0.0.dev6

[HouWan]

@illume @markph0204
Thank you very much, I solved this problem, follow your method:

one step:

brew install pkg-config

two step:

python3 -m pip install pygame==2.0.0.dev6 --user

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Here is a summary of the problem, and may help others who have encountered this problem.

On Mac, when you use pygame, you encounter the following problems:

• show error: Sorry, extended image module required
• always show gets a blank windows, no image

You can try the following:

1.check your SDL2 packages
eg:
brew list
brew install SDL2_xxxx

2.check your pygame version
eg:
python3 -m pip install pygame==2.0.0.dev6 --user

[ghost]

Thank you so much for this answer HouWan! Thank you