Problem: installation fails on Windows due to missing CPython extension

[raszel]

Hi,

I ran into an installation failure when trying to do a pip install in Windows. The messages from the cmd terminal are below. Any advice?

pip install pygfried
Collecting pygfried
  Using cached pygfried-0.2.0.tar.gz (168 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: pygfried
  Building wheel for pygfried (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [5 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_ext
      $ GOPATH='C:\Users\----\AppData\Local\Temp\1\tmpdbqnsh53' go get -d
      error: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pygfried
  Running setup.py clean for pygfried
Failed to build pygfried
Installing collected packages: pygfried
  Running setup.py install for pygfried ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Running setup.py install for pygfried did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [5 lines of output]
      running install
      running build
      running build_ext
      $ GOPATH='C:\Users\----\AppData\Local\Temp\1\tmpy_311sv5' go get -d
      error: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> pygfried

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for output from the failure.

Thanks!

[sevein]

Hi @raszel. I apologize for not getting back to you sooner, somehow I missed the notification.
I never published the win32 distribution (see https://pypi.org/project/pygfried/#files). We would need a Windows machine, e.g. we could build and publish from a win32 environment in CI. I don't really have time but if you do I'd be happy to accept a pull request that includes a CI workflow in it.
Alternatively, you may have some success if you install the Go compiler before installing from pip, but that's far from ideal.

[raszel]

Thanks @sevein for the update! I think those would be beyond my skills at the moment, but I appreciate the suggestions!