Issue when setting up the environment on Windows

[OmsInSerial]

Installation from scratch on a Windows 11 machine. Issue when executing the erbb setup command :

MINGW64 ~/eurorack-blocks (main)
$ python --version
Python 3.11.4

MINGW64 ~/eurorack-blocks (main)
$ pip --version
pip 23.1.2 from C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.11)

MINGW64 ~/eurorack-blocks (main)
$ erbb setup
ERROR: Can not combine '--user' and '--target'
Extracting msys2_mingw64.zip...
Extracting kicad_minimal_windows_6.0.11-0.tar.gz...
Extracting gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10-win32.zip...
Installing python packages...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\xxxxx\eurorack-blocks\build-system\scripts\erbb", line 474, in <module>
    sys.exit (main ())
              ^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\xxxxx\eurorack-blocks\build-system\scripts\erbb", line 425, in main
    setup ()
  File "C:\Users\xxxxx\eurorack-blocks\build-system\scripts\erbb", line 188, in setup
    setup.install_python_requirements ()
  File "C:\Users\xxxxx\eurorack-blocks\build-system\setup\__init__.py", line 352, in install_python_requirements
    subprocess.check_call (
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1008.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\subprocess.py", line 413, in check_call
    raise alledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['C:\\Users\\xxxxx\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\\python.exe', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--quiet', '--quiet', '--quiet', '--disable-pip-version-check', '--log', 'C:\\Users\\xxxxx\\eurorack-blocks\\build-system\\toolchain\\pip-install-pip.log.txt', '--target', 'C:\\Users\\xxxxx\\eurorack-blocks\\build-system\\toolchain\\python3-packages', 'pip==23.1.2']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

Here the pip-install-pip.log.txt content created in "C:\Users\xxxxx\eurorack-blocks\build-system\toolcahin folder :

2023-06-11T16:55:33,216 ERROR: Can not combine '--user' and '--target'
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216 Exception information:
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216 Traceback (most recent call last):
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216   File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\base_command.py", line 169, in exc_logging_wrapper
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216     status = run_func(*args)
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216   File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\req_command.py", line 248, in wrapper
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216     return func(self, options, args)
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216   File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\install.py", line 268, in run
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216     raise CommandError("Can not combine '--user' and '--target'")
2023-06-11T16:55:33,216 pip._internal.exceptions.CommandError: Can not combine '--user' and '--target'

[ohmtech-rdi]

Thanks for the report. That sounds to be Python from the Windows store.

Did you install Python as in the doc? If not please do not install python as said in the documentation, let's keep this configuration to see if we can support it.

[ohmtech-rdi]

Also please tell me the output of the following:

(note the 3)

$ python3 --version

$ which python3

$ python3 -m pip --version

Thanks!

[OmsInSerial]

So to be accurate :

• Python installed as said in the doc (not through Windows store) is not linked in GitBash. Tried this with no success :

alias python='winpty python.exe'

• When you launch Python in GitBash (after Python3 as said in the doc is uninstalled) it launches Windows Store to install Python. Then Python is available with GitBash but with the issue described above.

So here is the output for the commands:

$ python3 --version
Python 3.11.4

$ which python3
/c/Users/xxxxx/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/python3

$ python3 -m pip --version
pip 23.1.2 from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.11)

Thanks

[ohmtech-rdi]

Hi, @OmsInSerial could you please run the following commands and tell me what they return?

python3 -m pip config list

python3 -m pip config --global list

python3 -m pip config --user list

python3 -m pip config --site list

The error message is fairly old, so I suspect that Windows might set up some configuration for pip. I guess something like:

 [install]
 user = true

Or something.

Thanks!

[OmsInSerial]

Hello @ohmtech-rdi here is the return of the above commands :

xxxxx@xxxxx MINGW64 ~/eurorack-blocks (main)
$ python3 -m pip config list
freeze.user='yes'
install.user='yes'
list.user='yes'
uninstall.user='yes'

xxxxx@xxxxx MINGW64 ~/eurorack-blocks (main)
$ python3 -m pip config --global list

xxxxx@xxxxx MINGW64 ~/eurorack-blocks (main)
$ python3 -m pip config --user list

xxxxx@xxxxx MINGW64 ~/eurorack-blocks (main)
$ python3 -m pip config --site list
freeze.user='yes'
install.user='yes'
list.user='yes'
uninstall.user='yes'

Thanks

[OmsInSerial]

Added --no-user option to subprocess.check_call in _init_.py

def install_python_requirements ():
   os.makedirs (PATH_PY3_PACKAGES)

   print ('Installing python packages...')

   # Start by installing a version of pip after 22.2. This version introduces
   # the 'universal2' that some our dependencies, like freetype-py, depends
   # on, in order to install the wheel we need.

   subprocess.check_call (
      [
         sys.executable,
         '-m', 'pip', 'install',
         '--quiet', '--quiet', '--quiet',
         '--disable-pip-version-check',
         '--log', os.path.join (PATH_TOOLCHAIN, 'pip-install-pip.log.txt'),
         '--target', PATH_PY3_PACKAGES,
         '--no-user',
         'pip==23.1.2',
      ]
   )

   # pip install --target does not support well shared namespaces. Here with
   # the bin/ folder which is used for `pip` binaries, which we don't use
   # so remove that folder before installing requirements.

   shutil.rmtree (os.path.join (PATH_PY3_PACKAGES, 'bin'))

   subprocess.check_call (
      [
         sys.executable,
         '-m', 'pip', 'install',
         '--quiet', '--quiet', '--quiet',
         '--disable-pip-version-check',
         '--log', os.path.join (PATH_TOOLCHAIN, 'pip-install-reqs.log.txt'),
         '--target', PATH_PY3_PACKAGES,
         '--no-user',
         '--report', os.path.join (PATH_TOOLCHAIN, 'pip-report.json'),
         '--requirement', os.path.join (PATH_ROOT, 'requirements.txt'),
      ],
      cwd=PATH_PY3_PACKAGES
   )

Seems to be OK now!

xxxxx@xxxxxx MINGW64 ~/eurorack-blocks (main)
$ erbb setup
     -------------------------------------- 790.5/790.5 kB 8.4 MB/s eta 0:00:00
     ---------------------------------------- 90.6/90.6 kB 5.4 MB/s eta 0:00:00
     ---------------------------------------- 1.9/1.9 MB 15.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Extracting msys2_mingw64.zip...
Extracting kicad_minimal_windows_6.0.11-0.tar.gz...
Extracting gcc-arm-none-eabi-10.3-2021.10-win32.zip...
Installing python packages...
Optimizing erbb...
Checking toolchain...
OK.

Also build the Drop sample whithout any prob to validate the environment.

[OmsInSerial]

Also, I had to manually set Errb and Eurorack-blocks packages paths in Max

[ohmtech-rdi]

Also, I had to manually set Errb and Eurorack-blocks packages paths in Max

Did you have an error if you didn't do that? If so, what was it?

[ohmtech-rdi]

Added --no-user option to subprocess.check_call in init.py

I've made this PR #558 yesterday for this, I guess the change is OK to merge anyway.

[OmsInSerial]

OK thanks