dlenski / python-zxing

python wrapper for the ZXing barcode library
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Install fails on Windows #33

Closed lemmarathon closed 3 months ago

lemmarathon commented 3 months ago

Installing zxing on Windows results in the following error:

❯ pip install .\python-zxing-1.0.2
Processing python-zxing-1.0.2
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [10 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "python-zxing-1.0.2\setup.py", line 49, in <module>
          long_description=open('README.md').read(),
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\lemmarathon\scoop\apps\python\3.12.2\Lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
          return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 3118: character maps to <undefined>
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.