Installation Issue- Building Wheel for PDSim error

[TolikPa]

Dear community,

I am trying to Install PDSim to work on my machine using Anaconda interpreter and PyCharm. I get the following error massage when I do the "pip install -e ." command.
I verified that I have the required packages and that they are updated, but the error remains.

Would appreciate any advice on how to resolve the matter.

Thank you very much for helping

" Building wheel for PDSim (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for PDSim (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [11 lines of output]
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Error: Command '['git', 'rev-parse', 'HEAD']' returned non-zero exit status 128.
Unable to extract the git revision, set to placeholder
Error: Command '['git', 'rev-parse', '--abbrev-ref', 'HEAD']' returned non-zero exit status 128.
Unable to extract the git branch, set to placeholder
to be written to init.py:
version = '2.14'
git_revision = '????'
git_branch = '????'
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 PDSim
Failed to build PDSim
ERROR: Could not build wheels for PDSim, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
"

[ibell]

You need to install a compiler as described in the docs, and also in the error message. Did you do a git clone? That is required to make sure all the dependencies are properly included.

[TolikPa]

Thank you very much for the response.
I have followed this page for the installation process :
https://pdsim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install_build.html

I have installed TortuiseGit and followed this instructions: "Option A: If you installed TortoiseGit, In Windows Explorer, go to a folder where you want to put the source code for PDSim. Right-click and select “Git Clone…”. Use the URL https://github.com/ibell/pdsim."

[ibell]

Looks like git is not available at the terminal, which is ok, but it is good idea to add git to the path in general.

Did you install a compiler?

[TolikPa]

I have installed Minconda and Visual Studio toolbox

[ibell]

Which Visual Studio?

[TolikPa]

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributed (x86) - 14.28.29325
and
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributed (x64) - 14.38.33130

[ibell]

That's not what you need - see the link in the error message: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

[TolikPa]

I have both of them installed; the Visual Studio community 2022 (2) and Visual Studio Build Tools 2022

[ibell]

Hmm, that should be sufficient. Can you do instead: python setup.py build?

[TolikPa]

I have submitted the command in the cmd terminal window I got an:
import cython
ModuleNotFoundError: No Module named 'cython'
During handling of the above expression, another exception occurred:
...
ImportError: Sorry the required package cython was not found

[ibell]

Right, you need to do: pip install cython

[TolikPa]

I followed the same process with all the uninstalled packages CoolProp and numpy. Eventually, when I submitted the python setup.py build?
It provided me with this response
"to be written to init.py.... invalid command name 'build?"
and a long list of warnings

[ibell]

How about instead : pip -vv wheel . ?

[ibell]

Just tested on my windows machine and wheel building is fine