Install Python shout module in Windows 10 (Python 3.9)

I am trying to install python-shout module in Windows 10 but it fails. In Ubuntu it works well.

Edit (06/10/2022): Here is what i have tried to build python-shout in native windows

Only download libshout module files from here: Note that I download all the 14 dependencies + this package: winpthreads
I renamed the 15 zst files to have names like 1.zst, 2.zst,..., 15.zst
I decompress the zst files using this command: tar --use-compress-program=unzstd -xvf 1.zst
From the output files and directories I copied the opt/x86_64-w64-mingw32/* folders and files in mingw64 folder.
After that I uninstall msys2 platform.
I open a cmd and I run the file mingw64/bin/shout.exe The files run correctly.
I download and extract the python-shout module from here
I modified the setup.py of the extracted folder in step 7 to be like

# distutils build script
# To install shout-python, run 'python setup.py install'

from setuptools import setup, Extension
import os
import sys
import setuptools

ver = '0.2.7'

with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
    long_description = fh.read()

cflags = "-IC:/Users/cpapp/OneDrive/Υπολογιστής/mingw64/include"
libs = "-LC:/Users/cpapp/OneDrive/Υπολογιστής/mingw64/lib -lshout"

# there must be an easier way to set up these flags!
iflags = [x[2:] for x in cflags.split() if x[0:2] == '-I']
extra_cflags = [x for x in cflags.split() if x[0:2] != '-I']
libdirs = [x[2:] for x in libs.split() if x[0:2] == '-L']
libsonly = [x[2:] for x in libs.split() if x[0:2] == '-l']

# include_dirs=[]
# libraries=[]
# runtime_library_dirs=[]
# extra_objects, extra_compile_args, extra_link_args
shout = Extension('shout', sources = ['shout.c'],
                  include_dirs = iflags,
                  extra_compile_args = extra_cflags,
                  library_dirs = libdirs,
                  libraries = libsonly)

# data_files = []
setup (name = 'python-shout',
       version = ver,
       description = 'Bindings for libshout 2',
       long_description=long_description,
       long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
       url = 'http://icecast.org/download.php',
       author = 'Brendan Cully',
       author_email = 'brendan@xiph.org',
       ext_modules = [shout],
       packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
       classifiers=[
                   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
                   "Programming Language :: Python :: 2",
                   "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2)",
                   "Operating System :: OS Independent",
               ],

       )

Important note: Check the path values of cflags and libs variables.

I run python setup.py build with this output:

running build
running build_ext
building 'shout' extension
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe" /c /nologo /O2 /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -IC:/Users/cpapp/OneDrive/Υπολογιστής/mingw64/include -IC:\python\include -IC:\python\Include "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\ATLMFC\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.19041.0\\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.19041.0\\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.19041.0\\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.19041.0\\cppwinrt" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\ATLMFC\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.19041.0\\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.19041.0\\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.19041.0\\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.19041.0\\cppwinrt" /Tcshout.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-cpython-310\Release\shout.obj
shout.c
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\HostX86\x86\link.exe" /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO /LTCG /DLL /MANIFEST:EMBED,ID=2 /MANIFESTUAC:NO /LIBPATH:C:/Users/cpapp/OneDrive/Υπολογιστής/mingw64/lib /LIBPATH:C:\python\libs /LIBPATH:C:\python /LIBPATH:C:\python\PCbuild\win32 "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\ATLMFC\lib\x86" "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\lib\x86" "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.19041.0\ucrt\x86" "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\lib\10.0.19041.0\\um\x86" "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\ATLMFC\lib\x86" "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\lib\x86" "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.19041.0\ucrt\x86" "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\lib\10.0.19041.0\\um\x86" shout.lib /EXPORT:PyInit_shout build\temp.win32-cpython-310\Release\shout.obj /OUT:build\lib.win32-cpython-310\shout.cp310-win_amd64.pyd /IMPLIB:build\temp.win32-cpython-310\Release\shout.cp310-win_amd64.lib
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'shout.lib'
error: command 'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.33.31629\\bin\\HostX86\\x86\\link.exe' failed with exit code 1181

The error is that shout.lib file can't be found, but there is no shout.lib file only libshout-3.dll. I tried to convert libshout-3.dll to shout.lib using dumpbin. The Python module installation works well but when I am trying to import the module not well formatted dll error occurred.

Solution

I have succesfully install python-shout module with MingGW and MSYS 2.

Instructions:

Download msys2 from https://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20210228.exe
Run the installer (instructions: https://www.msys2.org/)
Update packages using pacman -Syu and pacman -Su
Install basic programs for msys2 pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
Install python pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python
Install libshout pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libshout
Download and extract python-shout from: https://github.com/yomguy/python-shout
Edit setup.py to be like this:

from setuptools import setup, Extension
import os
import sys
import setuptools

ver = '0.2.7'

with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
    long_description = fh.read()

cflags = "-IC:/msys64/mingw64/include"
libs = "-LC:/msys64/mingw64/lib -lshout"

# there must be an easier way to set up these flags!
iflags = [x[2:] for x in cflags.split() if x[0:2] == '-I']
extra_cflags = [x for x in cflags.split() if x[0:2] != '-I']
libdirs = [x[2:] for x in libs.split() if x[0:2] == '-L']
libsonly = [x[2:] for x in libs.split() if x[0:2] == '-l']

# include_dirs=[]
# libraries=[]
# runtime_library_dirs=[]
# extra_objects, extra_compile_args, extra_link_args
shout = Extension('shout', sources = ['shout.c'],
                  include_dirs = iflags,
                  extra_compile_args = extra_cflags,
                  library_dirs = libdirs,
                  libraries = libsonly)

# data_files = []
setup (name = 'python-shout',
       version = ver,
       description = 'Bindings for libshout 2',
       long_description=long_description,
       long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
       url = 'http://icecast.org/download.php',
       author = 'Brendan Cully',
       author_email = 'brendan@xiph.org',
       ext_modules = [shout],
       packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
       classifiers=[
                   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
                   "Programming Language :: Python :: 2",
                   "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2)",
                   "Operating System :: OS Independent",
               ],

       )

Install setuptools pacman -S python-setuptools
Install python-shout running: 10.a cd c/Users/Χρήστος/Desktop/python-shout-master Note that you must put your Windows username instead of mine (Χρήστος) and 10.b python setup.py install

and that's it. Python-shout module has successfully installed in your Windows machine. To test it just run:

python 
>>import shout
>>s = shout.Shout()
>>print("Using libshout version %s" % shout.version())

After that you can install pyinstaller from source in MSYS2 console (https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller) download and extract, then run python setup.py install

and finally run pyinstaller --onefile icecast_program.py

and then you will have an exe that can be run in every Windows system.