Why am I getting this error while installing pygame in pycharm
Question:
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygame
this is the full process
(venv) C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimate>pip install pygame
Collecting pygame
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c7/b8/06e02c7cca7aec915839927a9aa19f749ac17a3d2bb2610b945d2de0aa96/pygame-2.0.1.tar.gz (5.5MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 5.5MB 996kB/s
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
Using WINDOWS configuration...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamesetup.py", line 318, in <module>
buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG)
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigconfig.py", line 221, in main
deps = CFG.main(**kwds)
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 574, in main
return setup_prebuilt_sdl2(prebuilt_dir)
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 499, in setup_prebuilt_sdl2
DEPS.configure()
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 336, in configure
from . import vstools
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigvstools.py", line 11, in <module>
compiler.initialize()
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython38libdistutilsmsvc9compiler.py", line 372, in initialize
vc_env = query_vcvarsall(VERSION, plat_spec)
File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
147, in msvc9_query_vcvarsall
File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
1227, in return_env
File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
876, in VCIncludes
File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
555, in VCInstallDir
distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.2 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualst
udio.microsoft.com/downloads/
Making dir :prebuilt_downloads:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-devel-2.0.14-VC.zip 48d5dcd4a445410301f5575219cffb6de654edb8
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2-devel-2.0.14-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/SDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-VC.zip 137f86474691f4e12e76e07d58d5920c8d844d5b
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/release/SDL2_ttf-devel-2.0.15-VC.zip 1436df41ebc47ac36e02ec9bda5699e80ff9bd27
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2_ttf-devel-2.0.15-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/release/SDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.4-VC.zip 9097148f4529cf19f805ccd007618dec280f0ecc
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.4-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsr9d.zip ed10aa2b5a0fcfe74f8a6f7611aeb346b06a1f99
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsjpegsr9d.zip:
Downloading... https://pygame.org/ftp/prebuilt-x64-pygame-1.9.2-20150922.zip 3a5af3427b3aa13a0aaf5c4cb08daaed341613ed
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsprebuilt-x64-pygame-1.9.2-20150922.zip:
copying into .prebuilt-x64
Path for SDL: prebuilt-x64SDL2-2.0.14
...Library directory for SDL: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.0.14/lib/x64
...Include directory for SDL: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.0.14/include
Path for FONT: prebuilt-x64SDL2_ttf-2.0.15
...Library directory for FONT: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/lib/x64
...Include directory for FONT: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/include
Path for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64SDL2_image-2.0.5
...Library directory for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/lib/x64
...Include directory for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/include
Path for MIXER: prebuilt-x64SDL2_mixer-2.0.4
...Library directory for MIXER: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4/lib/x64
...Include directory for MIXER: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4/include
Path for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64
...Library directory for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64/lib
...Include directory for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64/include
DLL for SDL2: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.0.14/lib/x64/SDL2.dll
DLL for SDL2_ttf: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/lib/x64/SDL2_ttf.dll
DLL for SDL2_image: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/lib/x64/SDL2_image.dll
DLL for SDL2_mixer: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4/lib/x64/SDL2_mixer.dll
DLL for portmidi: prebuilt-x64/lib/portmidi.dll
Path for FREETYPE not found.
...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
Path for PNG not found.
...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
Path for JPEG not found.
...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
DLL for freetype: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/lib/x64/libfreetype-6.dll
---
For help with compilation see:
https://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileWindows
To contribute to pygame development see:
https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
---
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygame
Answers:
I am not sure how this problem can be solved but I will try to help.
Try the following things:
- Don’t install it for that specific project. Try to just go to cmd and install it for your whole python env.
- Make sure python is properly installed in the PATH variable.
- Try to use
py -m pip install -U pygame --user instead. If that doesn’t work, try python3 -m pip install -U pygame --user.
If you are using python 3.8 and/or none of the above methods work, you have two options: either revert to python 3.7 or wait for pygame to get updated. Pygame is known to function improperly in python 3.8. I had faced the same issue and I solved it by switching to python 3.7 for pygame projects and the latest version for other python projects.
You are seeing this error because pip is attempting to compile the complete SDL library for pygame, and your machine is missing the build requirements to do so. This is in your error message:
Microsoft Visual C++ 14.2 is required
Luckily, pygame offers pre-compiled binaries for most operating systems so you don’t have to compile yourself. They are distributed as Python wheels. All you should have to do to access the pre-compiled version is install wheel:
C:>pip install wheel
C:>pip install pygame
Today my friends met the same questions.
It seems that pygame has been not suit to python3.11.0,becase I can install it by python 3.10.7 but not by python 3.11.0.So you can use python3.10.7 instead of python3.11.0 to solve this quesiton.
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygame
this is the full process
(venv) C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimate>pip install pygame
Collecting pygame
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c7/b8/06e02c7cca7aec915839927a9aa19f749ac17a3d2bb2610b945d2de0aa96/pygame-2.0.1.tar.gz (5.5MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 5.5MB 996kB/s
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
Using WINDOWS configuration...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamesetup.py", line 318, in <module>
buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG)
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigconfig.py", line 221, in main
deps = CFG.main(**kwds)
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 574, in main
return setup_prebuilt_sdl2(prebuilt_dir)
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 499, in setup_prebuilt_sdl2
DEPS.configure()
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 336, in configure
from . import vstools
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamebuildconfigvstools.py", line 11, in <module>
compiler.initialize()
File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython38libdistutilsmsvc9compiler.py", line 372, in initialize
vc_env = query_vcvarsall(VERSION, plat_spec)
File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
147, in msvc9_query_vcvarsall
File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
1227, in return_env
File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
876, in VCIncludes
File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
555, in VCInstallDir
distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.2 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualst
udio.microsoft.com/downloads/
Making dir :prebuilt_downloads:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-devel-2.0.14-VC.zip 48d5dcd4a445410301f5575219cffb6de654edb8
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2-devel-2.0.14-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/SDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-VC.zip 137f86474691f4e12e76e07d58d5920c8d844d5b
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/release/SDL2_ttf-devel-2.0.15-VC.zip 1436df41ebc47ac36e02ec9bda5699e80ff9bd27
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2_ttf-devel-2.0.15-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/release/SDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.4-VC.zip 9097148f4529cf19f805ccd007618dec280f0ecc
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.4-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsr9d.zip ed10aa2b5a0fcfe74f8a6f7611aeb346b06a1f99
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsjpegsr9d.zip:
Downloading... https://pygame.org/ftp/prebuilt-x64-pygame-1.9.2-20150922.zip 3a5af3427b3aa13a0aaf5c4cb08daaed341613ed
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsprebuilt-x64-pygame-1.9.2-20150922.zip:
copying into .prebuilt-x64
Path for SDL: prebuilt-x64SDL2-2.0.14
...Library directory for SDL: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.0.14/lib/x64
...Include directory for SDL: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.0.14/include
Path for FONT: prebuilt-x64SDL2_ttf-2.0.15
...Library directory for FONT: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/lib/x64
...Include directory for FONT: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/include
Path for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64SDL2_image-2.0.5
...Library directory for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/lib/x64
...Include directory for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/include
Path for MIXER: prebuilt-x64SDL2_mixer-2.0.4
...Library directory for MIXER: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4/lib/x64
...Include directory for MIXER: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4/include
Path for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64
...Library directory for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64/lib
...Include directory for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64/include
DLL for SDL2: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.0.14/lib/x64/SDL2.dll
DLL for SDL2_ttf: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/lib/x64/SDL2_ttf.dll
DLL for SDL2_image: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/lib/x64/SDL2_image.dll
DLL for SDL2_mixer: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4/lib/x64/SDL2_mixer.dll
DLL for portmidi: prebuilt-x64/lib/portmidi.dll
Path for FREETYPE not found.
...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
Path for PNG not found.
...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
Path for JPEG not found.
...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
DLL for freetype: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/lib/x64/libfreetype-6.dll
---
For help with compilation see:
https://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileWindows
To contribute to pygame development see:
https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
---
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygame
I am not sure how this problem can be solved but I will try to help.
Try the following things:
- Don’t install it for that specific project. Try to just go to cmd and install it for your whole python env.
- Make sure python is properly installed in the PATH variable.
- Try to use
py -m pip install -U pygame --userinstead. If that doesn’t work, trypython3 -m pip install -U pygame --user.
If you are using python 3.8 and/or none of the above methods work, you have two options: either revert to python 3.7 or wait for pygame to get updated. Pygame is known to function improperly in python 3.8. I had faced the same issue and I solved it by switching to python 3.7 for pygame projects and the latest version for other python projects.
You are seeing this error because pip is attempting to compile the complete SDL library for pygame, and your machine is missing the build requirements to do so. This is in your error message:
Microsoft Visual C++ 14.2 is required
Luckily, pygame offers pre-compiled binaries for most operating systems so you don’t have to compile yourself. They are distributed as Python wheels. All you should have to do to access the pre-compiled version is install wheel:
C:>pip install wheel
C:>pip install pygame
Today my friends met the same questions.
It seems that pygame has been not suit to python3.11.0,becase I can install it by python 3.10.7 but not by python 3.11.0.So you can use python3.10.7 instead of python3.11.0 to solve this quesiton.