Cannot install psychopy through pip on MacOS M2

For Mac silicon, compiling tables/hdf5 is hard (as you’ve found) and psychtoolbox is currently impossible (so you won’t get low-latency audio).

I strongly recommend for now that you stick to Standalone PsychoPy

If you need your own python that you use it in Intel mode with Rosetta translation. That would mean going into terminal, setting up a virtual env and using that virtual env while in intel architecture mode to install your dependencies. You’ll then need to switch to intel mode and activate the virtual env whenever you use psychopy

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