🔒 error message when installing pygame "subprocess-exited-with-error"

[wintry vessel]

what do i do?
error starts when 'getting requirements to build wheel'

[dense prism]

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[wintry vessel]

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[frank ibex]

what python version are you running, and what architecture is the CPU

[lost holly]

This might help you:

      
For help with compilation see:
          https://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileWindows

from your listing.

This:

          from setuptools._distutils.msvccompiler import MSVCCompiler, get_build_architecture
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools._distutils.msvccompiler'

suggests to me that you need to instal a compiler. (Disclaimer: I'm not a windows person.)

[wintry vessel]

newest version 3.14/6a i think and im not sure what the architecture of the cpu is but the cpu is a 7600x

rlly?

[lost holly]

Possibly try a slightly older Python? If you're installing to something very recent like 3.13.

The OP seems to just be installing pygame, very normal.

[lost holly]

Maybe that person was in the wrong thread.

[wintry vessel]

k

[lost holly]

If you type py -0, what does it show?

[wintry vessel]

•           Active venv
  

-V:3.14 Python 3.14 (64-bit)

[lost holly]

Right. Very new. Can yoou install (additionally) Python 3.13 or 3.12?

In fact, 3.14 might be in beta still.

The point here being that there should be prebuilt pygame installs for the slightly older Pythons.

Your troubles come from it trying to build from source, because prebuilt builds aren't there.

[wintry vessel]

should i uninstall and download 3.13?

[lost holly]

Not uninstal. Just fetch 3.13 (or safer again, 3.12).

py (the Python launcher) will manage multiple Pythons. Just pick the right one for your stuff, eg by saying py -3.12 to invoke the 3.12 Python (once it's installed).

[wintry vessel]

i installed 3.13 now what ?

[wintry vessel]

done, what next? Do i do pip install again?

[quaint jay]

Where did you find 3.14 it's in alpha

[wintry vessel]

idk

it was on the page when i was downloading

[quaint jay]

https://www.python.org/downloads/ this one?

[wintry vessel]

yeah

[lost holly]

You need to pip install, but to the 313 environment:

py -3.13 -m pip install pygame

[wintry vessel]

i installed it i deleted 3.14 and reinstalled everything

[quaint jay]

Seems a bit drastic, but did it work?

[wintry vessel]

it works

[lost holly]

Yay. I think 3.14 is just oo new to have pygame binary installs available.

[frank ibex]

I checked it's to 3.13

[lost holly]

Yes but they started with 3.14

[frank ibex]

Just I gone to do something else so I didn't check the reply 🥴

So definitely need downgrade as op have done already

[wintry vessel]

yeah

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