'"devenv.com"' is not recognized as an internal or external command --- when installing

[texbowman]

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Describe the bug (mandatory)

I use pip to install the package, and it fails. I do not have a clue what is going on.

My platform: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22621 Build 22621
System Type: x64-based PC
python version: 3.11.0 (I use chocolatey to install python and pip)
pip version: 22.3

`PS C:\Users\wolf_> python3 -m pip install --upgrade --use-pep517 pymupdf
Collecting pymupdf
Using cached PyMuPDF-1.21.0.tar.gz (57.2 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: pymupdf
Building wheel for pymupdf (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for pymupdf (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [79 lines of output]
PyMuPDF/setup.py: sys.argv: ['setup.py', 'bdist_wheel', '--dist-dir', 'C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-3u1uadei\tmp0tzge0y7']
PyMuPDF/setup.py: os.getcwd(): C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-chl6z5o5\pymupdf_398d46ce7daf4f43bf24ba74f9aa5682
PyMuPDF/setup.py: file: setup.py
PyMuPDF/setup.py: $PYTHON_ARCH: None
PyMuPDF/setup.py: os.environ (47):
PyMuPDF/setup.py: ALLUSERSPROFILE: C:\ProgramData
PyMuPDF/setup.py: APPDATA: C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Roaming
PyMuPDF/setup.py: CHOCOLATEYINSTALL: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey
PyMuPDF/setup.py: CHOCOLATEYLASTPATHUPDATE: 133110965117942506
PyMuPDF/setup.py: COMMONPROGRAMFILES: C:\Program Files\Common Files
PyMuPDF/setup.py: COMMONPROGRAMFILES(X86): C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
PyMuPDF/setup.py: COMMONPROGRAMW6432: C:\Program Files\Common Files
PyMuPDF/setup.py: COMPUTERNAME: OFIDIUS
PyMuPDF/setup.py: COMSPEC: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
PyMuPDF/setup.py: DRIVERDATA: C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\DriverData
PyMuPDF/setup.py: HOMEDRIVE: C:
PyMuPDF/setup.py: HOMEPATH: \Users\wolf_
PyMuPDF/setup.py: LOCALAPPDATA: C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local
PyMuPDF/setup.py: LOGONSERVER: \OFIDIUS
PyMuPDF/setup.py: NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS: 16
PyMuPDF/setup.py: NVIDIAWHITELISTED: 0x01
PyMuPDF/setup.py: ONEDRIVE: C:\Users\wolf_\OneDrive
PyMuPDF/setup.py: OS: Windows_NT
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PATH: C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-3gsfkqtb\overlay\bin;C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-3gsfkqtb\normal\bin;C:\Python311\Scripts;C:\Python311;C:\Python310\Scripts;C:\Python310;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH;C:\msys64\mingw64\bin;C:\msys64\usr\bin;C:\Programme\SumatraPDF;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\dotnet;C:\Programme\PDFtk-Server\bin;C:\Programme\swig;C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\texlive\2022\bin\win32;C:\msys64\mingw64\bin;C:\msys64\mingw64\bin
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PATHEXT: .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC;.PY;.PYW;.CPL
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE: AMD64
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER: Intel64 Family 6 Model 165 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PROCESSOR_LEVEL: 6
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PROCESSOR_REVISION: a502
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PROGRAMDATA: C:\ProgramData
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PROGRAMFILES: C:\Program Files
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PROGRAMFILES(X86): C:\Program Files (x86)
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PROGRAMW6432: C:\Program Files
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PSMODULEPATH: C:\Users\wolf_\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PUBLIC: C:\Users\Public
PyMuPDF/setup.py: SHIM_MCCOMPAT: 0x810000001
PyMuPDF/setup.py: SYSTEMDRIVE: C:
PyMuPDF/setup.py: SYSTEMROOT: C:\WINDOWS
PyMuPDF/setup.py: TEMP: C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp
PyMuPDF/setup.py: TMP: C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp
PyMuPDF/setup.py: USERDOMAIN: OFIDIUS
PyMuPDF/setup.py: USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE: OFIDIUS
PyMuPDF/setup.py: USERNAME: wolf_
PyMuPDF/setup.py: USERPROFILE: C:\Users\wolf_
PyMuPDF/setup.py: WINDIR: C:\WINDOWS
PyMuPDF/setup.py: WSLENV: WT_SESSION::WT_PROFILE_ID
PyMuPDF/setup.py: WT_PROFILE_ID: {61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff44bf}
PyMuPDF/setup.py: WT_SESSION: 231b1f39-d6c9-4b42-9f20-6ddd81268456
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PIP_BUILD_TRACKER: C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-tracker-h994spfb
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PYTHONNOUSERSITE: 1
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PYTHONPATH: C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-3gsfkqtb\site
PyMuPDF/setup.py: PEP517_BUILD_BACKEND: setuptools.build_meta:legacy
PyMuPDF/setup.py: mupdf_tgz already exists: C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-chl6z5o5\pymupdf_398d46ce7daf4f43bf24ba74f9aa5682\mupdf.tgz
PyMuPDF/setup.py: Extracting C:\Users\wolf_\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-chl6z5o5\pymupdf_398d46ce7daf4f43bf24ba74f9aa5682\mupdf.tgz
PyMuPDF/setup.py: mupdf_local='mupdf-1.21.0-source/'
PyMuPDF/setup.py: Building mupdf.
PyMuPDF/setup.py: Cannot find devenv.com in default locations, using: 'devenv.com'
PyMuPDF/setup.py: Building MuPDF by running: cd mupdf-1.21.0-source/&&"devenv.com" platform/win32/mupdf.sln /Build "ReleaseTesseract|x64" /Project mupdf
'"devenv.com"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\msys64\mingw64\lib\python3.10\site-packages\pip_vendor\pep517\in_process_in_process.py", line 351, in
main()
File "C:\msys64\mingw64\lib\python3.10\site-packages\pip_vendor\pep517\in_process_in_process.py", line 333, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "C:\msys64\mingw64\lib\python3.10\site-packages\pip_vendor\pep517\in_process_in_process.py", line 249, in build_wheel
return build_backend().build_wheel(wheel_directory, config_settings,
File "C:\Users\wolf\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-3gsfkqtb\overlay\lib\python3.10\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 412, in build_wheel
return self.build_with_temp_dir(['bdist_wheel'], '.whl',
File "C:\Users\wolf\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-3gsfkqtb\overlay\lib\python3.10\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 397, in build_with_temp_dir
self.run_setup()
File "C:\Users\wolf\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-3gsfkqtb\overlay\lib\python3.10\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 483, in run_setup
super(BuildMetaLegacyBackend,
File "C:\Users\wolf\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-3gsfkqtb\overlay\lib\python3.10\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 335, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 625, in
File "C:\msys64\mingw64\lib\python3.10\subprocess.py", line 526, in run
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'cd mupdf-1.21.0-source/&&"devenv.com" platform/win32/mupdf.sln /Build "ReleaseTesseract|x64" /Project mupdf' returned non-zero exit status 1.
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for pymupdf
Failed to build pymupdf
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pymupdf, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects`

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

It looks like the available Windows wheels are not suitable for your system, presumably because your python is from Chocolatey, which doesn't seem to work with normal Python packaging. So pip is attempting to build PyMuPDF from the sdist (source distribution).

This needs Visual Studio, but it looks like this is not installed on your system (in which case you need to install it), or at least is not installed in a location known to setup.py (in which case you should set environmental variable PYMUPDF_SETUP_DEVENV to point to the devenv.com binary).

In addition you will need to install SWIG - see https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html for details.

I hope that makes sense.

[texbowman]

I uninstall python from Chocolatey, and reinstall it using conventional binary version. Problem solved! Thank you!.

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

This issue is documented in PyMuPDF-1.21.1.