can't build 1.16.1 - fatal error: fitz.h not exist

[alium]

I want build PyMuPDF as usually i build python-packages, ergo:

python setup.py build, python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1

but i can build that, because fitz.h missing

log:
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'fitz._fitz' extension
swigging fitz/fitz.i to fitz/fitz_wrap.c
swig -python -o fitz/fitz_wrap.c fitz/fitz.i
creating build
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/fitz
gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O3 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O3 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O3 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -march=haswell -mtune=haswell -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/mupdf -I/usr/local/include/mupdf -I/usr/include/python3.7m -c fitz/fitz_wrap.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/fitz/fitz_wrap.o
fitz/fitz_wrap.c:2732:10: fatal error: fitz.h: directory or file does not exist
2732 | #include <fitz.h>
| ^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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1.16.1 and 1.14.18 tested and both are affected...

maybe stupid question, but i found no solution....

[JorjMcKie]

Have you read the installation documentation of the manual and the hints on the homepage of the repo?

• Downloaded & installed MuPDF from their download (!) site?
• Downloaded PyMuPDF source from PyPI?
• Copied the _config.h from the fitz folder of the repo to the downloaded MuPDF folder replacing config.h (without underscore) there?
• Generated MuPDF after all the previous steps?
• Adjusted any folder names in setup.py?

Your error means that the MuPDF source is not accessible - a clear sign that you missed one or more of the previous steps: fitz.h is contained in mupdf/include/mupdf, which therefore must be missing in your setup.py.

[alium]

pretty stupid installation :-D

[emacs18]

I ran into the same error on a freshly installed CentOS 8 while running

pip3 install --user pymudpf

Prior to this following completed successfully:

sudo yum install python3-qt5-devel.x86_64
pip3 install --user dbus-python python-xlib pyqt5 pyqtwebengine grip qrcode feedparser

Must I build pymudpdf from source and not using pip3?
I don't even know what pymupdf is. I'm just trying to follow instructions at
https://github.com/manateelazycat/emacs-application-framework
ie., pymupdf is just one of many preprequisites.

[JorjMcKie]

Must I build pymudpdf from source and not using pip3?
I don't even know what pymupdf is. I'm just trying to follow instructions at
https://github.com/manateelazycat/emacs-application-framework
ie., pymupdf is just one of many preprequisites.

1. PyMuPDF is a package to access PDF and many other document types (XPS, EPUB, ...) from Python.
2. I am not familiar with CentOS, but obviously it is not one of the OS upported by the wheels I am offering on PyPI. I am a little surprised, that this Linux type wouldn't be among the ones supported by the platform tag manylinux2010. If you know what you are doing, you can even unzip the right wheel version an manually copy those 5 files to your dist or site packages ... There are also tools to convert wheels back to an egg format, which is certainly cleaner (https://github.com/dairiki/humpty). This in the hope, that the egg install will be less picky that pip.
3. In that case one must install from sources. As such not a big deal (and you can use pip3 for it), but before this, the base library MuPDF must be installed. This is explained on the homepage and more dilligently in the PyMuPDF documentation.

[emacs18]

Thank you for your reply.
I will try to build this from source.
The only reason why I bother with CentOS is that it is used in my day job.
Compared with ubuntu, centos seems like it is from dinosaur age as far as basic user experience goes.
I can't see why anyone would choose to use this for personal use.

[chenghaitao]

$ pip3 install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5a/4a/39400ff9b36e719bdf8f31c99fe1fa7842a42fa77432e584f707a5080063/pip-20.2.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.5MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.5MB 408kB/s
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-20.2.2

[susuusus]

Hi @JorjMcKie , correct me if I am wrong .Once I installed pymupdf, mupdf should get automatically downloaded in window and linux, but why I still encounter the issue that fitz.h not found

[JorjMcKie]

Once I installed pymupdf, mupdf should get automatically downloaded in window and linux

No, this won't (and should not!) happen automatically. You must download and install MuPDF as a separate step prior to generating PyMuPDF from source.

[susuusus]

Thanks for the prompt reply. But I am able to use pymupdf in local drive which is window without downloading mupdf in advance. But once I put it on cloud, it fails.

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On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 8:49 PM, Jorj X. McKie ***@***.***> wrote: Once I installed pymupdf, mupdf should get automatically downloaded in window and linux No, this won't happen automatically. You must download and install MuPDF as a separate step prior to generating PyMuPDF from source. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#358 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGZLK3YQDWAUS4VDNPHHQEDSQO7HDANCNFSM4IVEZA2Q> .

[JorjMcKie]

I have seen a similar problem earlier here: #430. Maybe you can get ideas from that discussion. Jorj Von: susuusus<mailto:notifications@github.com> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. November 2020 09:01 An: pymupdf/PyMuPDF<mailto:PyMuPDF@noreply.github.com> Cc: Jorj X. McKie<mailto:jorj.x.mckie@outlook.de>; Mention<mailto:mention@noreply.github.com> Betreff: Re: [pymupdf/PyMuPDF] can't build 1.16.1 - fatal error: fitz.h not exist (#358) Thanks for the prompt reply. But I am able to use pymupdf in local drive which is window without downloading mupdf in advance. But once I put it on cloud, it fails.

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[denyu95]

Maybe you need to upgrade pip first

1. pip3 install --upgrade pip
2. pip3 install PyMuPDF
   Good luck