python - Why am I getting this error while installing pygame in pycharm

Question

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygame

this is the full process

(venv) C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimate>pip install pygame
Collecting pygame
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c7/b8/06e02c7cca7aec915839927a9aa19f749ac17a3d2bb2610b945d2de0aa96/pygame-2.0.1.tar.gz (5.5MB)

    100% |████████████████████████████████| 5.5MB 996kB/s
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:


    WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
    Using WINDOWS configuration...

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygamesetup.py", line 318, in <module>
        buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG)
      File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygameuildconfigconfig.py", line 221, in main
        deps = CFG.main(**kwds)
      File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygameuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 574, in main
        return setup_prebuilt_sdl2(prebuilt_dir)
      File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygameuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 499, in setup_prebuilt_sdl2
        DEPS.configure()
      File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygameuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 336, in configure
        from . import vstools
      File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygameuildconfigvstools.py", line 11, in <module>
        compiler.initialize()
      File "C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython38libdistutilsmsvc9compiler.py", line 372, in initialize
        vc_env = query_vcvarsall(VERSION, plat_spec)
      File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
147, in msvc9_query_vcvarsall
      File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
1227, in return_env
      File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
876, in VCIncludes
      File "C:UsersEli HeistPycharmProjectsSpace Invaders Ultimatevenvlibsite-packagessetuptools-40.8.0-py3.8.eggsetuptoolsmsvc.py", line
555, in VCInstallDir
    distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.2 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualst
udio.microsoft.com/downloads/
    Making dir :prebuilt_downloads:
    Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-devel-2.0.14-VC.zip 48d5dcd4a445410301f5575219cffb6de654edb8
    Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2-devel-2.0.14-VC.zip:
    Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/SDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-VC.zip 137f86474691f4e12e76e07d58d5920c8d844d5b
    Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-VC.zip:
    Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/release/SDL2_ttf-devel-2.0.15-VC.zip 1436df41ebc47ac36e02ec9bda5699e80ff9bd27
    Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2_ttf-devel-2.0.15-VC.zip:
    Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/release/SDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.4-VC.zip 9097148f4529cf19f805ccd007618dec280f0ecc
    Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsSDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.4-VC.zip:
    Downloading... https://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsr9d.zip ed10aa2b5a0fcfe74f8a6f7611aeb346b06a1f99
    Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsjpegsr9d.zip:
    Downloading... https://pygame.org/ftp/prebuilt-x64-pygame-1.9.2-20150922.zip 3a5af3427b3aa13a0aaf5c4cb08daaed341613ed
    Unzipping :prebuilt_downloadsprebuilt-x64-pygame-1.9.2-20150922.zip:
    copying into .prebuilt-x64
    Path for SDL: prebuilt-x64SDL2-2.0.14
    ...Library directory for SDL: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.0.14/lib/x64
    ...Include directory for SDL: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.0.14/include
    Path for FONT: prebuilt-x64SDL2_ttf-2.0.15
    ...Library directory for FONT: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/lib/x64
    ...Include directory for FONT: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/include
    Path for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64SDL2_image-2.0.5
    ...Library directory for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/lib/x64
    ...Include directory for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/include
    Path for MIXER: prebuilt-x64SDL2_mixer-2.0.4
    ...Library directory for MIXER: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4/lib/x64
    ...Include directory for MIXER: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4/include
    Path for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64
    ...Library directory for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64/lib
    ...Include directory for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64/include
    DLL for SDL2: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.0.14/lib/x64/SDL2.dll
    DLL for SDL2_ttf: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/lib/x64/SDL2_ttf.dll
    DLL for SDL2_image: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/lib/x64/SDL2_image.dll
    DLL for SDL2_mixer: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4/lib/x64/SDL2_mixer.dll
    DLL for portmidi: prebuilt-x64/lib/portmidi.dll
    Path for FREETYPE not found.
    ...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
    Path for PNG not found.
    ...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
    Path for JPEG not found.
    ...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
    DLL for freetype: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15/lib/x64/libfreetype-6.dll

    ---
    For help with compilation see:
        https://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileWindows
    To contribute to pygame development see:
        https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
    ---


    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:UsersEli HeistAppDataLocalTemppip-install-fjf50xi9pygame

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65858990/why-am-i-getting-this-error-while-installing-pygame-in-pycharm

Answer 1

You are seeing this error because pip is attempting to compile the complete SDL library for pygame, and your machine is missing the build requirements to do so. This is in your error message:

Microsoft Visual C++ 14.2 is required

Luckily, pygame offers pre-compiled binaries for most operating systems so you don't have to compile yourself. They are distributed as Python wheels. All you should have to do to access the pre-compiled version is install wheel:

C:>pip install wheel
C:>pip install pygame