Can't run psychtoolbox outside of stand-alone because of import psychtoolbox problem

[AlexHolcombe]

I see now that in November 2024, Jon wrote that Psychopy outside of standalone is impossible because of psychtoolbox not working. But we haven’t run into the tables/HDF problem, so perhaps it will work if we just avoid sound or use another sound library, right? We don’t need low-latency audio…

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 activa…