Error while running kivy program - [CRITICAL] [App ] Unable to get a Text provider, abort

Question

My Code:

import kivy
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.label import Label


class MyApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return Label(text="sdMickey")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    MyApp().run()

the Error:

C:\Users\soham\PycharmProjects\test\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/soham/PycharmProjects/test/main.py
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in C:\Users\soham\.kivy\logs\kivy_20-05-27_82.txt
[INFO   ] [deps        ] Successfully imported "kivy_deps.gstreamer" 0.1.18
[INFO   ] [deps        ] Successfully imported "kivy_deps.angle" 0.1.10
[INFO   ] [deps        ] Successfully imported "kivy_deps.glew" 0.1.12
[INFO   ] [deps        ] Successfully imported "kivy_deps.sdl2" 0.1.23
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.11.1
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] Installed at "C:\Users\soham\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\kivy\__init__.py"
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.6.8 (tags/v3.6.8:3c6b436a57, Dec 24 2018, 00:16:47) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)]
[INFO   ] [Python      ] Interpreter at "C:\Users\soham\PycharmProjects\test\venv\Scripts\python.exe"
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 184 symbols loaded
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_gif (img_sdl2, img_pil, img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[CRITICAL] [Text        ] Unable to find any valuable Text provider. Please enable debug logging (e.g. add -d if running from the command line, or change the log level in the config) and re-run your app to identify potential causes
sdl2 - ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
  File "C:\Users\soham\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\kivy\core\__init__.py", line 63, in core_select_lib
    fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
  File "C:\Users\soham\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\kivy\core\text\text_sdl2.py", line 13, in <module>
    from kivy.core.text._text_sdl2 import (_SurfaceContainer, _get_extents,

pil - ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'
  File "C:\Users\soham\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\kivy\core\__init__.py", line 63, in core_select_lib
    fromlist=[modulename], level=0)
  File "C:\Users\soham\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\kivy\core\text\text_pil.py", line 7, in <module>
    from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw

[CRITICAL] [App         ] Unable to get a Text provider, abort.

Process finished with exit code 1

I have tried many sites and tutorials but haven't found anything that works for me. Right now I've tried these:

pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
pip install docutils pygments pypiwin32 kivy-deps.sdl2 kivy-deps.glew 
pip install kivy-deps.gstreamer 
pip install kivy-deps.angle 
pip install –-upgrade kivy

They didn't work

I have tried installing kivy on python 3.6, 3.7 & 3.8 and i am running this code on pycharm. I also tried installing packages in the project interpreter (specifically kivy-deps), it still doesn't work.

None of the above solutions have worked, they give the same error.

Please help.

Answer 1

I have found a temporary solution to it. The problem is when you use kivy in a virtual environment which is the case most of the time in PyCharm. So, to counter that i use my existing python.exe file as my System integrator instead of creating a virtual environment. this seems to work for me.