Trying to install the PyAudio package using pip is showing an error, while other packages are installing normally.
I am using python 3.7. Why is this error happening?
C:\Users\Himanshu>pip install PyAudio
Collecting PyAudio
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ab/42/b4f04721c5c5bfc196ce156b3c768998ef8c0ae3654ed29ea5020c749a6b/PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: PyAudio
Running setup.py install for PyAudio ... error
Complete output from command c:\users\himanshu\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Himanshu\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-romfztqt\\PyAudio\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\Himanshu\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-bmeri0ux\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.7
copying src\pyaudio.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.7
running build_ext
building '_portaudio' extension
creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.7
creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.7\Release
creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.7\Release\src
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.15.26726\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -DMS_WIN64=1 -Ic:\users\himanshu\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\include -Ic:\users\himanshu\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\include "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.15.26726\ATLMFC\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.15.26726\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.6.1\include\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\cppwinrt" /Tcsrc/_portaudiomodule.c /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-3.7\Release\src/_portaudiomodule.obj
_portaudiomodule.c
c:\users\himanshu\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\include\pyconfig.h(117): warning C4005: 'MS_WIN64': macro redefinition
src/_portaudiomodule.c: note: see previous definition of 'MS_WIN64'
src/_portaudiomodule.c(29): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'portaudio.h': No such file or directory
error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.15.26726\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
----------------------------------------
Command "c:\users\himanshu\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Himanshu\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-romfztqt\\PyAudio\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\Himanshu\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-bmeri0ux\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Himanshu\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-romfztqt\PyAudio\
When running python 3.6 this works, but with python 3.7 it doesn't.
PyAudio only supports up to python 3.6:
pip will fetch and install PyAudio wheels (prepackaged binaries). Currently, there are wheels compatible with the official distributions of Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6.
The workarounds would be to use a supported version of python, or to build and install manually - if the latter, you'll need to make sure you have the correct libraries installed and configured.
I should point out that PyAudio appears to be deprecated. It hasn't received an update since March 2017. Therefore I recommend you find another package for this.