"Failed building wheel for vowpalwabbit"

[stepanveret]

• Pip version: 9.0.1
• Python version: 3.6.4
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Edition

Description:

I tried to install vowpal wabbit with pip, the following error occured.

What I've run

('tensorflow' here is a name of the Anaconda environment. Anyway, exactly the same error occurs when I run pip install vowpalwabbit in my 'base' environment)

(tensorflow) C:\Users\Stepan>pip install vowpalwabbit

Collecting vowpalwabbit
  Using cached vowpalwabbit-8.4.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: vowpalwabbit
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for vowpalwabbit ... error
  Complete output from command C:\Users\Stepan\Anaconda2\envs\tensorflow\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Stepan\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-spvze3s9\\vowpalwabbit\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\Stepan\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpkp44c8hjpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\vowpalwabbit
  copying vowpalwabbit\pyvw.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\vowpalwabbit
  copying vowpalwabbit\sklearn_vw.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\vowpalwabbit
  copying vowpalwabbit\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\vowpalwabbit
  running egg_info
  writing vowpalwabbit.egg-info\PKG-INFO
  writing dependency_links to vowpalwabbit.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
  writing top-level names to vowpalwabbit.egg-info\top_level.txt
  reading manifest file 'vowpalwabbit.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
  reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
  warning: no files found matching '*.dll' under directory 'bin'
  warning: no previously-included files matching '*.o' found anywhere in distribution
  warning: no previously-included files matching '*.exe' found anywhere in distribution
  warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found anywhere in distribution
  writing manifest file 'vowpalwabbit.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
  running build_ext
  error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\Stepan\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-spvze3s9\\vowpalwabbit\\bin\\pyvw36.dll'

  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for vowpalwabbit
  Running setup.py clean for vowpalwabbit
Failed to build vowpalwabbit
Installing collected packages: vowpalwabbit
  Running setup.py install for vowpalwabbit ... error
    Complete output from command C:\Users\Stepan\Anaconda2\envs\tensorflow\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Stepan\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-spvze3s9\\vowpalwabbit\\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\Stepan\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-2tfq4lc2-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\vowpalwabbit
    copying vowpalwabbit\pyvw.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\vowpalwabbit
    copying vowpalwabbit\sklearn_vw.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\vowpalwabbit
    copying vowpalwabbit\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\vowpalwabbit
    running egg_info
    creating vowpalwabbit.egg-info
    writing vowpalwabbit.egg-info\PKG-INFO
    writing dependency_links to vowpalwabbit.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
    writing top-level names to vowpalwabbit.egg-info\top_level.txt
    writing manifest file 'vowpalwabbit.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
    reading manifest file 'vowpalwabbit.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
    reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
    warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'src'
    warning: no files found matching '*.dll' under directory 'bin'
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.o' found anywhere in distribution
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.exe' found anywhere in distribution
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found anywhere in distribution
    writing manifest file 'vowpalwabbit.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
    running build_ext
    error: [WinError 2] ═х єфрхЄё  эрщЄш єърчрээ√щ Їрщы

    ----------------------------------------
Command "C:\Users\Stepan\Anaconda2\envs\tensorflow\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Stepan\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-spvze3s9\\vowpalwabbit\\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\Stepan\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-2tfq4lc2-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Stepan\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-spvze3s9\vowpalwabbit\

[dpalbrecht]

I'm having what looks like this same issue - what was the fix?

[stepanveret]

Hi @dpalbrecht.
Actually there is no need to install vowpalwabbit as a python package. It should work from console (or from jupyter notebook with commands beginning with !vw. You can download msi file from here https://github.com/eisber/vowpal_wabbit/releases, install, then add directory C:\Program Files\VowpalWabbit (or any other directory where it will be installed) to your system Path variable. And it will work.
I am still a bit confused, what this python package is for if you can use vowpal wabbit from console.

[aazim-lakhani]

Stumbled across this page as i'm facing the same issue. @stepanveret , you may have figured, if not, it'll help others. The python package is useful for those who would like to use VW with python instead of the command line

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