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The midi feature's not gating pypm currently. When pkg-config doesn't see portmidi, cc.find_library(..., required: get_option('midi')) gets wrapped in declare_dependency(). This always declares it found, including -Dmidi=disabled, but also -Dmidi=auto which impacts Android.

The fix starts with a "not found" state, skips the lookup when midi is disabled, and declares the dependency when find_library actually does.

Tested in WSL and installed portmidi. "disabled" now correctly skips building a pypm target, and enabled/auto still successfully build. dev.py build and dev.py test on this branch match main on my machine (same 4 pre-existing WavPack mixer errors, nothing new). A -Dmidi=disabled build imports fine and pygame.midi is absent. No new unit tests since this is meson build config.

Relevant for Android: disabled/auto now skip pypm and successfully builds a wheel, and -Dmidi=enabled correctly still errors.

AI disclosure: the meson.build diff itself was discovered by Fable 5.1, working from my android build experiments and my understanding of why -Dmidi=disabled wasn't taking effect. I reviewed it line by line and no changes were necessary. Testing / sanity check was done by me, and for completeness Fable 5.1 ran its own sweep. Everything came back clean.

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The build now gates Portmidi detection on the midi option and platform. pygame.midi now raises a descriptive error when Portmidi support is unavailable.

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Portmidi MIDI availability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gate Portmidi detection
meson.build
Portmidi starts unavailable, follows the midi option, checks dependency lookup first, and searches configured libraries on supported platforms.
Report unavailable MIDI support
src_py/midi.py
The module catches missing pygame.pypm imports and raises a descriptive ImportError with the original exception chained.

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MIDI-disabled or PortMidi-unavailable builds now omit MIDI support cleanly and report a clear error if pygame.midi is imported. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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In `@meson.build`:
- Around line 458-459: Update the Meson MIDI configuration around portmidi_dep
and the src_py midi.py installation so pygame.midi is installed only when pypm
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# pygame.midi imports the pypm extension, so only install it when pypm is built
if portmidi_dep.found()
py.install_sources('midi.py', subdir: pg)
endif

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This change will cause import pygame.midi to raise an ImportError/ModuleNotFound error with a generic error message.

I suppose an alternative here is to have some error handling in midi.py that does a try-except while importing midi, and on failure raises a better error message?

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I agree a try-except makes sense. I see something similar in camera.py. I'll push something here shortly. I'll revert 115db3e and edit midi.py

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99b9091 pushed

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LGTM, thanks for contributing to pygame-ce! 🎉

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