"pip install PyMuPDF" failed. Python 3.8.0 32 bit.

[conradRz]

Describe the bug (mandatory)

-"pip install PyMuPDF" failed

To Reproduce (mandatory)

• whether I run pip under admin or as a user, the same error occurs.

Your configuration (mandatory)

Python 3.8.0 32 bit. Windows 10 64 bit. Fitz package installed.

Additional context (optional)

Collecting PyMuPDF
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4c/8e/a84e6b205d0db6d3bd9bd4b406fb7d38548e36ed882ae3099d03b82c0ea1/PyMuPDF-1.16.8.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: PyMuPDF
    Running setup.py install for PyMuPDF ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-aqsk8wu5\\PyMuPDF\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-aqsk8wu5\\PyMuPDF\\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\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-5bnq5vev\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile
         cwd: C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-aqsk8wu5\PyMuPDF\
    Complete output (19 lines):
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win32-3.8
    creating build\lib.win32-3.8\fitz
    copying fitz\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.8\fitz
    copying fitz\fitz.py -> build\lib.win32-3.8\fitz
    copying fitz\utils.py -> build\lib.win32-3.8\fitz
    copying fitz\__main__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.8\fitz
    running build_ext
    building 'fitz._fitz' extension
    creating build\temp.win32-3.8
    creating build\temp.win32-3.8\Release
    creating build\temp.win32-3.8\Release\fitz
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.20.27508\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -I./mupdf/include -I./mupdf/include/mupdf "-Ic:\program files (x86)\python38-32\include" "-Ic:\program files (x86)\python38-32\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.20.27508\ATLMFC\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.20.27508\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.6.1\include\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17763.0\cppwinrt" /Tc./fitz/fitz_wrap.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-3.8\Release\./fitz/fitz_wrap.obj
    fitz_wrap.c
    ./fitz/fitz_wrap.c(2732): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'fitz.h': No such file or directory
    error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.20.27508\\bin\\HostX86\\x86\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: 'c:\program files (x86)\python38-32\python.exe' -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-aqsk8wu5\\PyMuPDF\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-aqsk8wu5\\PyMuPDF\\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\User\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-5bnq5vev\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile Check the logs for full command output.

[conradRz]

pip install PyMuPDF==1.16.7 worked, but the default one and latest didn't

pip search MuPDF
PyMuPDF (1.16.8)  - Python bindings for the PDF rendering library MuPDF
  INSTALLED: 1.16.7
  LATEST:    1.16.8

[JorjMcKie]

The reason is: I have not created 32-bit wheels - as I previously did.
The 64bit version should work.
If PIP does not find find a fitting wheel for your system, it will start generating from sources ... which in our case will fail, because MuPDF will most certainly not have been installed.

[conradRz]

Thanks for looking into this.

[JorjMcKie]

Uff, that was a quick close 😮
No problem for you using 64bit?
My (internal) reasoning for dropping the 32bit Windows wheels was driven by two aspects:

• reduce network traffic (I have a low bandwidth internet connection)
• more justice with the non-Windows guys, who never have seen a 32bit wheel version

[Prismacolor]

Hi is there any plan to change in the future? I was just curious. I ran into the same error today and used the solution proposed and it seems to work. I just wanted to know in case we use this tool in the future.

[JorjMcKie]

Yes, starting with the next version, I will again upload 32bit wheels.
If you need one now as a quick solution, drop me a note please.

[leonardoee]

Hi,
I've been facing the a similar issue when installing PyMuPDF on my raspberry Pi. I've been trying work this out for more than a week. Just to highlight, I'm a beginner on coding and linux.

Firstly when I ran "pip install PyMuPDF" I got the error bellow:
"command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1"
The same error happened with I downloaded and tried to install PyMuPDF-master by "python setup.py install"

After several unsuccessful tries and errors installing all sorts of packages when I ran "python setup.py install" from PyMuPDF-master I got a slightly different error:
"error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1"

I did all the steps on the links bellow, but nothing worked.
https://solarianprogrammer.com/2018/05/06/building-gcc-cross-compiler-raspberry-pi/
https://github.com/Pro/raspi-toolchain

Appreciate any help on this.

[e-dervieux]

I encountered the same issue today on Windows 10 (64 bits). Installing with: pip install PyMuPDF==1.16.7 as suggested by @conradOU did the trick though.

Error is: fitz/fitz_wrap.c(2755): fatal error C1083: Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier includeÿ: 'fitz.h'ÿ: No such file or directory

Complete error message:

>pip install PyMuPDF
Collecting PyMuPDF
  Downloading PyMuPDF-1.19.6.tar.gz (2.3 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 2.3 MB 3.3 MB/s
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: PyMuPDF
  Building wheel for PyMuPDF (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: 'C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\sisr\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\XXX\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-zm7rmtay\\pymupdf_28f652253f8343bc9977d329e2eabc5a\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\XXX\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-zm7rmtay\\pymupdf_28f652253f8343bc9977d329e2eabc5a\\setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d 'C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-zituhdbr'
       cwd: C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-zm7rmtay\pymupdf_28f652253f8343bc9977d329e2eabc5a\
  Complete output (19 lines):
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
  copying fitz\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
  copying fitz\fitz.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
  copying fitz\utils.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
  copying fitz\__main__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
  running build_ext
  building 'fitz._fitz' extension
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.6
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.6\Release
  creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.6\Release\fitz
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -I./mupdf/include -I./mupdf/include/mupdf -I./mupdf/thirdparty/freetype/include -IC:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\sisr\include -IC:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\sisr\include "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\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\shared" "-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\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\cppwinrt" /Tcfitz/fitz_wrap.c /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-3.6\Release\fitz/fitz_wrap.obj
  fitz_wrap.c
  fitz/fitz_wrap.c(2755): fatal error C1083: Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier includeÿ: 'fitz.h'ÿ: No such file or directory
  error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.29.30133\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for PyMuPDF
  Running setup.py clean for PyMuPDF
Failed to build PyMuPDF
Installing collected packages: PyMuPDF
    Running setup.py install for PyMuPDF ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\sisr\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\XXX\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-zm7rmtay\\pymupdf_28f652253f8343bc9977d329e2eabc5a\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\XXX\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-zm7rmtay\\pymupdf_28f652253f8343bc9977d329e2eabc5a\\setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-t9w9ajgr\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers 'C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\sisr\Include\PyMuPDF'
         cwd: C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-zm7rmtay\pymupdf_28f652253f8343bc9977d329e2eabc5a\
    Complete output (19 lines):
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
    copying fitz\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
    copying fitz\fitz.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
    copying fitz\utils.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
    copying fitz\__main__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\fitz
    running build_ext
    building 'fitz._fitz' extension
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.6
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.6\Release
    creating build\temp.win-amd64-3.6\Release\fitz
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -I./mupdf/include -I./mupdf/include/mupdf -I./mupdf/thirdparty/freetype/include -IC:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\sisr\include -IC:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\sisr\include "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\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\shared" "-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\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\cppwinrt" /Tcfitz/fitz_wrap.c /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-3.6\Release\fitz/fitz_wrap.obj
    fitz_wrap.c
    fitz/fitz_wrap.c(2755): fatal error C1083: Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier includeÿ: 'fitz.h'ÿ: No such file or directory
    error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.29.30133\\bin\\HostX86\\x64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: 'C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\sisr\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\XXX\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-zm7rmtay\\pymupdf_28f652253f8343bc9977d329e2eabc5a\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\XXX\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-zm7rmtay\\pymupdf_28f652253f8343bc9977d329e2eabc5a\\setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record 'C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-t9w9ajgr\install-record.txt' --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers 'C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\sisr\Include\PyMuPDF' Check the logs for full command output.

It is kind of weird that it seeks Visual Studio in the 32bits Program Files though. As one would expect, I did not install MuPDF, as it states here that "[New in PyMuPDF-1.20: there is no need to separately build or install MuPDF; the required MuPDF source code is already in the sdist and is automatically built into PyMuPDF.]".

EDIT: it seems that my pip is not collecting the 1.20 version but the 1.19, although I ran python -m pip install --upgrade pip beforehand. Maybe since the 1.20 version was released today I need to wait a bit longer?

[JorjMcKie]

Python 3.6 is out of its lifespan and hence no longer supported with a wheel. Therefore pip will always try to install from sources.
Which may be bound to fail, because Python C methods might be used that did not exist prior to Python 3.7.
So please upgrade your zombie Python by at least one version and your are fine.

[e-dervieux]

@JorjMcKie Thank you very much for the quick answer. Indeed, my bad, I was trying this on my personal windows computer, which I almost never use for programming, I didn't even notice that my Python was that old xD

I should have read PyMuPDF installation page more thoroughly : "PyMuPDF does not support Python versions prior to 3.7".

[JorjMcKie]

No problem at all.
Would be great if everything could be solved that easily 😉.