Issue getting requirements to build wheel

[randy-shi]

Preliminaries

• [x] I have followed the latest version of the installation instructions.
• [x] I have checked the installation FAQ and my problem is either not mentioned there, or the solution given there does not help.

Description of error

I was going through the manual installation steps when I encountered this issue. I've already install FFmpeg and added it to PATH, but when I tried using pip to install manim, it gave me this error.

Installation logs

Terminal output

``` Collecting manim Using cached manim-0.14.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (10 kB) Requirement already satisfied: Pillow in c:\users\shira\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from manim) (11.0.0) Collecting click>=7.1 (from manim) Using cached click-8.1.7-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.0 kB) Collecting click-default-group (from manim) Using cached click_default_group-1.2.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.8 kB) Collecting cloup<0.8.0,>=0.7.0 (from manim) Using cached cloup-0.7.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (7.8 kB) Collecting colour (from manim) Using cached colour-0.1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (18 kB) Collecting decorator<6.0.0,>=5.0.7 (from manim) Using cached decorator-5.1.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.0 kB) Collecting isosurfaces==0.1.0 (from manim) Using cached isosurfaces-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.9 kB) Collecting manimpango<0.5.0,>=0.4.0.post0 (from manim) Using cached ManimPango-0.4.4.tar.gz (4.1 MB) Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [21 lines of output] Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\shira\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, in main() ~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\shira\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 335, in main json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs']) ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\shira\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return hook(config_settings) File "C:\Users\shira\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-zh1ozcn2\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 332, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[]) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\shira\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-zh1ozcn2\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 302, in _get_build_requires self.run_setup() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\shira\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-zh1ozcn2\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 318, in run_setup exec(code, locals()) ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "", line 42, in File "", line 38, in get_version KeyError: '__version__' [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: subprocess-exited-with-error × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> See above for output. note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. ```

System specifications

System Details

- OS (with version, e.g., Windows 10 v2004 or macOS 10.15 (Catalina)): Windows 11 - RAM: 32 GB - Python version (`python/py/python3 --version`): 3.13 - Installed modules (provide output from `pip list`): ffmpeg 1.4 MouseInfo 0.1.3 mpmath 1.3.0 numpy 2.1.2 opencv-python 4.10.0.84 packaging 24.1 pillow 11.0.0 pip 24.2 PyAutoGUI 0.9.54 PyGetWindow 0.0.9 PyMsgBox 1.0.9 pyperclip 1.9.0 PyRect 0.2.0 PyScreeze 1.0.1 pytesseract 0.3.13 pytweening 1.2.0 sympy 1.13.3

LaTeX details

+ LaTeX distribution (e.g. TeX Live 2020): MikTex + Installed LaTeX packages: 

Additional comments

[randy-shi]

Just used choco instead