Thanks Thomas On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 3:14 AM Thomas Kluyver <tak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The stable release of pygame (1.9.6) isn't built for Python 3.8, so pip > tries to build it from source, which fails. There are three options to work > around that: > > 1. Use Python 3.7 for now > 2. Install a pre-release version of pygame 2, with "pip install --pre > pygame" > 3. Get the necessary tools and libraries to build it from source - see > https://www.pygame.org/wiki/GettingStarted#Installing%20From%20Source . > This is probably quite a bit of work on Windows. > > Thomas > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 22:52, Suresh George <sayhelloby...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Greetings. >> >> I tried to install pygame, using pip install pygame, on my windows 10 >> running python 3.8.0. But it fails with the following error messages >> >> Can you please help how to fix this issue and steps to follow for a >> successful pygame installation on my PC. >> >> ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: >> command: >> 'c:\users\smuru02\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\python.exe' -c >> 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = >> '"'"'C:\\Users\\smuru02\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\\pygame\\setup.py'"'"'; >> >> __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\smuru02\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\\pygame\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, >> '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', >> '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' >> egg_info --egg-base >> 'C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\pip-egg-info' >> cwd: >> C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\ >> Complete output (17 lines): >> >> >> WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py" >> Using WINDOWS configuration... >> >> >> Download prebuilts to "prebuilt_downloads" and copy to "./prebuilt-x86"? >> [Y/n]Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<string>", line 1, in <module> >> File >> "C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\setup.py", >> line 194, in <module> >> buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG) >> File >> "C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\buildconfig\config.py", >> line 210, in main >> deps = CFG.main(**kwds) >> File >> "C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\buildconfig\config_win.py", >> line 576, in main >> and download_win_prebuilt.ask(**download_kwargs): >> File >> "C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\buildconfig\download_win_prebuilt.py", >> line 302, in ask >> reply = raw_input( >> EOFError: EOF when reading a line >> ---------------------------------------- >> ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info >> Check the logs for full command output. >> >> >>
