issues with pyk4a installation

[vstadnytskyi]

Hello,

I am struggling with installing pyk4a on Windows 11.

I get this error error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\BIN\\x86_amd64\\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2

full error

C:\Users\borguser>pip install pyk4a
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pyk4a
  Using cached pyk4a-1.5.0.tar.gz (24 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in c:\program files\python38\lib\site-packages (from pyk4a) (1.23.2)
Building wheels for collected packages: pyk4a
  Building wheel for pyk4a (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for pyk4a (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [31 lines of output]
      Automatically detected kinect SDK. Adding include dir: C:\Program Files\Azure Kinect SDK v1.4.1\sdk\include and library dir C:\Program Files\Azure Kinect SDK v1.4.1\sdk\windows-desktop\AMD64\release\lib.
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build
      creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38
      creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\calibration.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\capture.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\config.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\errors.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\module.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\playback.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\pyk4a.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\record.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\results.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\transformation.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\win32_utils.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      copying pyk4a\py.typed -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-38\pyk4a
      running build_ext
      building 'k4a_module' extension
      creating build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-38
      creating build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-38\Release
      creating build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-38\Release\pyk4a
      "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\x86_amd64\cl.exe" /c /nologo /O2 /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD "-IC:\Program Files\Azure Kinect SDK v1.4.1\sdk\include" -IC:\Users\borguser\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-gv2mj5pl\overlay\Lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include "-Ic:\program files\python38\include" "-Ic:\program files\python38\Include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\INCLUDE" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\ATLMFC\INCLUDE" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.10240.0\ucrt" /EHsc /Tppyk4a/pyk4a.cpp /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-cpython-38\Release\pyk4a/pyk4a.obj
      pyk4a.cpp
      c:\program files\python38\include\pyconfig.h(205): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'basetsd.h': No such file or directory
      C:\Users\borguser\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-gv2mj5pl\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:788: UserWarning: Usage of dash-separated 'description-file' will not be supported in future versions. Please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead
        warnings.warn(
      error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\BIN\\x86_amd64\\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyk4a
Failed to build pyk4a
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyk4a, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

[vstadnytskyi]

Seems like installing Windows 11 SDK helped

[Omdiwan]

I am still having this issue can you help?