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Installation on MacOSX¶
Note
This method has only been tested on Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard 64-bit. For versions prior to 10.6 or 10.6 32-bit, you have to install the components yourself. We suggest using homebrew to do that.
For Mac OS X 10.6 and later, we provide a Kivy.app with all dependencies bundled. Download it from our Download Page. It comes as a .dmg file that contains:
- Kivy.app
- Readme.txt
- An Examples folder
- A script to install a kivy command for shell usage
To install Kivy, you must:
- Download the latest version from http://kivy.org/#download
- Double-click to open it
- Drag the Kivy.app into your Applications folder
- Make sure to read the Readme.txt
Installing the dev version¶
Step 1. Follow the procedure mentioned above to install kivy stable. step 2 Open a terminal and type the following commands into it:
cd /Applications/Kivy.app/Contents/Resources/
mv kivy kivy_stable
git clone http://github.com/kivy/kivy
cd kivy
make
That’s it. You now have the latest kivy from github.
Start any Kivy Application¶
You can run any Kivy application by simply dragging the application’s main file onto the Kivy.app icon. Just try this with any python file in the examples folder.
Start from the Command Line¶
If you want to use Kivy from the command line, double-click the Make Symlinks script after you have dragged the Kivy.app into the Applications folder. To test if it worked:
Open Terminal.app and enter:
$ kivyYou should get a Python prompt.
In there, type:
$ import kivyIf it just goes to the next line without errors, it worked.
Running any Kivy application from the command line is now simply a matter of executing a command like the following:
$ kivy yourapplication.py