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

Answer 1

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

• sudo port install portaudio
• sudo brew install portaudio

Answer 2

Or with brew

brew install portaudio

Answer 3

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.