Failed to build wheel with autopy

Question

I was bored recently so I decided to do some programming and follow this tutorial which seemd interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?ev=8gPONnGIPgw&t=244s

During it, he installs the autopy module directly from pycharm, however when I try it directly myself from the settings in pycharm it doesn't work and I receive an error.

To combat this I decided to follow the instructions on the main site: https://pypi.org/project/autopy/

I tried the first

pip install autopy

command directly and got a massive error where it first said it failed to build the wheel, and then when it ran the second part setup.py it also gave a massive error saying it also failed.

From there I went to the second option:

rustup default nightly-2019-10-05
pip install -U setuptools-rust
pip install -U autopy

by installing rustup and running the other commands but it still fails and gives the "failed to build wheel" and setup.py failed error messages, the exact same ones as before.

Finally I tried the third option:

git clone git://github.com/autopilot-rs/autopy-rs.git
cd autopy
make
make install

by downloading the repository itself and then going into it and using make(that I installed via chocolatey in the powershell) and running these commands but it also fails.

I've tried all 3 methods and the internet is yielding minimum results, any help here or resources that may help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: my apologies I thought I added the error, here it is

Collecting autopy
  Using cached autopy-4.0.0.tar.gz (20 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: autopy
  Building wheel for autopy (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: 'c:\users\moham\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\moham\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-9plfhi_h\\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\moham\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-9plfhi_h\\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\\setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d 'C:\Users\moham\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-bt_24b82'
       cwd: C:\Users\moham\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-9plfhi_h\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\
  Complete output (21 lines):
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build\lib
  creating build\lib\autopy
  copying autopy\__init__.py -> build\lib\autopy
  running build_ext
  running build_rust
  error: no override and no default toolchain set
  error: can't find Rust compiler

  If you are using an outdated pip version, it is possible a prebuilt wheel is available for this package but pip is not able to install from it. Installing from the wheel would avoid the need for a Rust compiler.

  To update pip, run:

      pip install --upgrade pip

  and then retry package installation.

  If you did intend to build this package from source, try installing a Rust compiler from your system package manager and ensure it is on the PATH during installation. Alternatively, rustup (available at https://rustup.rs) is the recommended way to download and update the Rust compiler toolchain.
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for autopy
  Running setup.py clean for autopy
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: 'c:\users\moham\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\moham\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-9plfhi_h\\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\moham\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-9plfhi_h\\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\\setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' clean --all
       cwd: C:\Users\moham\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-9plfhi_h\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97
  Complete output (18 lines):
  running clean
  removing 'build\lib' (and everything under it)
  'build\bdist.win-amd64' does not exist -- can't clean it
  'build\scripts-3.9' does not exist -- can't clean it
  removing 'build'
  running clean_rust
  error: no override and no default toolchain set
  error: can't find Rust compiler

  If you are using an outdated pip version, it is possible a prebuilt wheel is available for this package but pip is not able to install from it. Installing from the wheel would avoid the need for a Rust compiler.

  To update pip, run:

      pip install --upgrade pip

  and then retry package installation.

  If you did intend to build this package from source, try installing a Rust compiler from your system package manager and ensure it is on the PATH during installation. Alternatively, rustup (available at https://rustup.rs) is the recommended way to download and update the Rust compiler toolchain.
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed cleaning build dir for autopy
Failed to build autopy
Installing collected packages: autopy
    Running setup.py install for autopy ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'c:\users\moham\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\moham\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-9plfhi_h\\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\moham\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-9plfhi_h\\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\\setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\moham\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-lgc9_ekn\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers 'c:\users\moham\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\Include\autopy'
         cwd: C:\Users\moham\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-9plfhi_h\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\
    Complete output (21 lines):
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.9
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\autopy
    copying autopy\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\autopy
    running build_ext
    running build_rust
    error: no override and no default toolchain set
    error: can't find Rust compiler

    If you are using an outdated pip version, it is possible a prebuilt wheel is available for this package but pip is not able to install from it. Installing from the wheel would avoid the need for a Rust compiler.

    To update pip, run:

        pip install --upgrade pip

    and then retry package installation.

    If you did intend to build this package from source, try installing a Rust compiler from your system package manager and ensure it is on the PATH during installation. Alternatively, rustup (available at https://rustup.rs) is the recommended way to download and update the Rust compiler toolchain.
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: 'c:\users\moham\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\moham\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-9plfhi_h\\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\moham\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-9plfhi_h\\autopy_f9372250d2954cabaa93abb9058afa97\\setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\moham\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-lgc9_ekn\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers 'c:\users\moham\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\Include\autopy' Check the logs for full command output.

Answer 1

Looking at the repository for AutoPy, I've found this issue here

Have you tried to use pip install autopy3 for python 3 and above? Furthermore, autopy uses rust cargo, you can try to clone the following repo and try to build it with Rust (cargo build) on your platform?