Spynner installation error on Mac OS X 10.9.1

Question

I can't get to install spynner on Mac OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks). I get the following error:

error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1

to mention that the error is thrown when the autopy dependency is installed. I have the Xcode, command line tools installed.

cc --version
Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
Thread model: posix

gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
Thread model: posix$

Any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

I ran into this same problem and I finally fixed it. Make sure your command line tools are up to date and then build autopy from src. For Xcode 5.1 (OSX 10.9) and Xcode 5.1.1 (OSX 10.10), run the following to download and install the latest command line tools:

xcode-select --install

Once finished, download autopy:

git clone git://github.com/msanders/autopy.git

Install autopy:

cd autopy && sudo python setup.py install

Install Spynner using pip:

sudo pip install spynner

Hopefully this saves someone out there some time in the future! **Note: In the past I already had the command line tools installed. Since I just updated to 10.10, it appears that I had to reinstall them. Makes sense.

Answer 2

As you said, Spynner relies on Autopy, and the installation fails because the compilation of autopy fails while compiling:

clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]

The fix has been suggested here. You should download autopy from source and modify the file src/screengrab.c adding at the top of you C file

#include <OpenGL/gl.h>

recompile the file You could also try to change compiling flags or install libpng from source

Answer 3

$ git clone git://github.com/msanders/autopy.git

$ cd autopy

add

#include "/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Headers/gl.h"

instead of

#include 

$ python setup.py build

$ sudo python setup.py install