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pythonpipmingwmsys2
guettli
guettli

Reputation: 27806

msys2/mingw64: pip: VC 6.0 is not supported by this module

I try to install a package in Windows 10 (mingw64) and get this error:

IEUser@MSEDGEWIN10 MINGW64 /c/Users/IEUser/PycharmProjects/myapp_msi-msys/myapp_msi
$ pip  install -e git+https://source.example.lan:40443/repos/myapp_common#egg=myapp_common
Obtaining myapp_common from git+https://source.example.lan:40443/repos/myapp_common#egg=myapp_common
  Cloning https://source.example.lan:40443/repos/myapp_common to c:/users/ieuser/pycharmprojects/myapp_msi-msys/myapp_msi/src/myapp-common
Username for 'https://source.example.lan:40443':
Password for 'https://[email protected]:40443':
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 191, in <module>
        monkey.patch_all()
      File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/monkey.py", line 101, in patch_all
        patch_for_msvc_specialized_compiler()
      File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/monkey.py", line 164, in patch_for_msvc_specialized_compiler
        patch_func(*msvc9('find_vcvarsall'))
      File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/monkey.py", line 151, in patch_params
        mod = import_module(mod_name)
      File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
        __import__(name)
      File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python2.7/distutils/msvc9compiler.py", line 306, in <module>
        raise DistutilsPlatformError("VC %0.1f is not supported by this module" % VERSION)
    distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: VC 6.0 is not supported by this module

What can I do to fix this?

I was following these instructions to set up my development environment: https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php

Update

Just for the records, I switched from gtk to qt (PySide2) and now I can use the default Python for windows. Everything is much easier now.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 8851

Answers (1)

Dan Yeaw
Dan Yeaw

Reputation: 800

In MSYS2, many of the issues are patched downstream with the MINGW-packages that go in to the pacman repository. In this case, the reason you are getting this error is that you have setuptools pip installed, instead of installed using the pacman repository. To fix this issue:

pip uninstall setuptools
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python-setuptools

or if you are using modern Python:

pip3 uninstall setuptools
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_x64-python3-setuptools

Upvotes: 13

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