Error when installing pyswisseph using pip on python 3.12

[hidp123]

Hi, getting an error when installing pyswisseph using pip on python 3.12. On 3.11 it installs correctly. So I assume this is the cause of the error. Is there any work around or does the release need an update? Thanks

[TharakaUmayanga]

can you paste the error here ?

[hidp123]

Collecting pyswisseph
Downloading pyswisseph-2.10.3.2.tar.gz (6.9 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6.9/6.9 MB 119.7 kB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: pyswisseph
Building wheel for pyswisseph (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for pyswisseph (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [11 lines of output]
C:\Users...\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-rlcfmrcg\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:314: InformationOnly: Normalizing '2.10.03.2' to '2.10.3.2'
self.metadata.version = self._normalize_version(self.metadata.version)
Searching for pkg-config...
pkg-config not found
Using internal libswe
Using internal sqlite3
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_ext
building 'swisseph' extension
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyswisseph
Failed to build pyswisseph
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyswisseph, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 413, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', 'pyswisseph']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

[TharakaUmayanga]

I think here's the problem

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

Download MS C++ Build Tool from here, Restart your pc and try again
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

[hidp123]

On python 3.11 it works, only on 3.12 it gives above error. I'll try what you mentioned.

[hidp123]

It worked, but it was like a 6GB install at the end. It looks like the pyswisseph wheel file needs to be rebuilt and re-uploaded to pypi.org for python3.12

[TharakaUmayanga]

wow.... 6GB is too much.

[19karamba]

+1! On python 3.13 it NOT works,

[hidp123]

I have built a .whl file that works, but github won't let me upload it

[19karamba]

hidp123, Try uploading to https://pypi.org . If it doesn't work out, go to some public file server, and you can place the link here.

[19karamba]

Or create fork,Create a new release, try upload.

[zkurtz]

I'm getting a similar error on 3.12 with windows, despite installation of https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/. Might be nice to have documentation of what platforms are supported and/or an updated new release soon.