"Error running configure" when installing from PyPi

[buhtz]

I tried to install "wxPython_4.0.0a3" from PyPi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wxPython on Debian unstable.

There comes the error "Error running configure". I can not see more hints.

This report is about PyPi installation. Don't point to the source repository, tarballs or whatever.

$ pip3 install wxPython
Collecting wxPython
  Downloading wxPython-4.0.0a3.tar.gz (50.5MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 50.5MB 30kB/s 
Collecting six (from wxPython)
  Downloading six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Building wheels for collected packages: wxPython
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for wxPython ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-ffab8icm/wxPython/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 /tmp/tmpmt7urr45pip-wheel- --python-tag cp35:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  WARNING: Building this way assumes that all generated files have been
  generated already.  If that is not the case then use build.py directly
  to generate the source and perform the build stage.  You can use
  --skip-build with the bdist_* or install commands to avoid this
  message and the wxWidgets and Phoenix build steps in the future.

  "/usr/bin/python3" -u build.py build
  Will build using: "/usr/bin/python3"
  3.5.3+ (default, Jun  7 2017, 23:23:48)
  [GCC 6.3.0 20170516]
  Python's architecture is 64bit
  cfg.VERSION: 4.0.0a3

  Running command: build
  Running command: build_wx
  wxWidgets build options: ['--wxpython', '--unicode']
  Configure options: ['--enable-unicode', '--with-opengl', '--enable-sound', '--enable-graphics_ctx', '--enable-mediactrl', '--enable-display', '--enable-geometry', '--enable-debug_flag', '--enable-optimise', '--disable-debugreport', '--enable-uiactionsim', '--with-sdl']
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  Error running configure
  ERROR: failed building wxWidgets
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "build.py", line 1259, in cmd_build_wx
      wxbuild.main(wxDir(), build_options)
    File "/tmp/pip-build-ffab8icm/wxPython/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 368, in main
      "Error running configure")
    File "/tmp/pip-build-ffab8icm/wxPython/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 85, in exitIfError
      raise builder.BuildError(msg)
  buildtools.builder.BuildError: Error running configure
  Finished command: build_wx (0m9.503s)
  Finished command: build (0m9.503s)
  Command '"/usr/bin/python3" -u build.py build' failed with exit code 1.

  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for wxPython
  Running setup.py clean for wxPython
Failed to build wxPython
Installing collected packages: six, wxPython
  Running setup.py install for wxPython ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-ffab8icm/wxPython/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-t8i_v41_-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=:
    running install
    running build
    WARNING: Building this way assumes that all generated files have been
    generated already.  If that is not the case then use build.py directly
    to generate the source and perform the build stage.  You can use
    --skip-build with the bdist_* or install commands to avoid this
    message and the wxWidgets and Phoenix build steps in the future.

    "/usr/bin/python3" -u build.py build
    Will build using: "/usr/bin/python3"
    3.5.3+ (default, Jun  7 2017, 23:23:48)
    [GCC 6.3.0 20170516]
    Python's architecture is 64bit
    cfg.VERSION: 4.0.0a3

    Running command: build
    Running command: build_wx
    wxWidgets build options: ['--wxpython', '--unicode']
    Configure options: ['--enable-unicode', '--with-opengl', '--enable-sound', '--enable-graphics_ctx', '--enable-mediactrl', '--enable-display', '--enable-geometry', '--enable-debug_flag', '--enable-optimise', '--disable-debugreport', '--enable-uiactionsim', '--with-sdl']
    /tmp/pip-build-ffab8icm/wxPython/ext/wxWidgets/configure --enable-unicode --with-opengl --enable-sound --enable-graphics_ctx --enable-mediactrl --enable-display --enable-geometry --enable-debug_flag --enable-optimise --disable-debugreport --enable-uiactionsim --with-sdl
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    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "build.py", line 1259, in cmd_build_wx
        wxbuild.main(wxDir(), build_options)
      File "/tmp/pip-build-ffab8icm/wxPython/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 368, in main
        "Error running configure")
      File "/tmp/pip-build-ffab8icm/wxPython/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 85, in exitIfError
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    buildtools.builder.BuildError: Error running configure
    Finished command: build_wx (0m7.843s)
    Finished command: build (0m7.843s)
    Command '"/usr/bin/python3" -u build.py build' failed with exit code 1.

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Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-ffab8icm/wxPython/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-t8i_v41_-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ffab8icm/wxPython/

[RobinD42]

wxWidgets has a lot of prerequisites that need to be installed in order for a build to succeed. Not just libraries, but also the dev packages for those libraries.

checking for WEBKIT... configure: WARNING: webkitgtk not found. configure: WARNING: WebKit not available, disabling wxWebView checking for CAIRO... yes checking for cairo_push_group... yes checking for GST... configure: WARNING: GStreamer 1.0 not available, falling back to 0.10 checking for GST... configure: WARNING: GStreamer 0.10 not available, falling back to 0.8 configure: error: GStreamer not available Error running configure

These are the kinds of clues to watch out for that will give you hints as to what is missing.

I have the following in a script that sets up one of my test environments on a Debian system:

apt-get install -y libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev \
    libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev \
    libsdl1.2-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev \
    libnotify-dev freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libsm-dev \
    libwebkitgtk-dev libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev

That should get you at least close to everything you'll need.

[RobinD42]

Oh, you've probably already got them but also make sure that you have pythonX.Y-dev packages installed too.

[buhtz]

All in.

The question is what did "configure" told about the error. The build process is to intransparent. What was the problem of configure?

[mesalu]

I'm a little uncertain what you're asking. Configure failed because you're missing some packages that wxWidgets requires to operate. If you've installed them all with the package manager appropriate to your distribution then rerunning the pip installation will work.

As for build-time transparency there are plans in the works to make this type of build error more human readable. But they're currently sitting at low priority.

[charliegreen]

It may also be worth noting that (for debian unstable, at least) libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev is a separate package not provided by libgstreamer1.0-dev.

[Ir1d]

Thx! @charliegreen That's exactly what I needed on Ubuntu 17.10 sudo apt install libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev

BTW, the pip installation took me about half an hour, which might be confusing without sudo pip3 install wxPython -v.

[YCmove]

Thanks to @charliegreen, I spend lots of hours dealing with all dependencies issue, this package libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev save my day!!!