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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Fails to install on Windows","articleBody":"A colleague and I tried installing OGDF-Python on Windows.\n\nThe colleague tried it with pip, which failed. I tried it with uv on Windows 11, which also failed.\n\n\nSteps to reproduce\n1. Get [UV](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) (or pip) on Windows\n2. \n```\nuv init some-demo\nuv add ogdf-python[quickstart]\n```\n\nThis results in the following error\n```\nUsing CPython 3.13.3\nCreating virtual environment at: .venv\nResolved 115 packages in 2.53s\n  × Failed to build `ogdf-wheel==2023.9`\n  ├─▶ The build backend returned an error\n  ╰─▶ Call to `hatchling.build.build_wheel` failed (exit code: 1)\n\n      [stdout]\n      Set wheel tag to py3-none-win_amd64\n\n      Config\n      {'artifacts': [],\n       'build_hooks': ('custom',),\n       'dependencies': [],\n       'extra_metadata': {},\n       'force_include': {},\n       'force_include_editable': {},\n       'infer_tag': False,\n       'pure_python': False,\n       'shared_data': {},\n       'shared_scripts': {},\n       'tag': 'py3-none-win_amd64'}\n      {'_BuilderConfig__build_config': {'ignore-vcs': True,\n                                        'targets': {'sdist': {'exclude': ['cmake_build',\n                                                                          'dist',\n                                                                          'wheelhouse',\n                                                                          '.git*']},\n                                                    'wheel': {'exclude': ['cmake_build',\n                                                                          'dist',\n                                                                          'wheelhouse',\n                                                                          '.git*',\n                                                                          'hatch_build.py',\n                                                                          'test_*.py'],\n                                                              'hooks': {'custom': {}}}}},\n       '_BuilderConfig__builder': \u003chatchling.builders.wheel.WheelBuilder object at 0x00000217695196A0\u003e,\n       '_BuilderConfig__exclude_all': False,\n       '_BuilderConfig__plugin_name': 'wheel',\n       '_BuilderConfig__root':\n      'C:\\\\Users\\\\Stefnotch\\\\AppData\\\\Local\\\\uv\\\\cache\\\\sdists-v9\\\\pypi\\\\ogdf-wheel\\\\2023.9\\\\lybCf4tAJyalrkxzFzCZo\\\\src',\n       '_BuilderConfig__target_config': {'exclude': ['cmake_build',\n                                                     'dist',\n                                                     'wheelhouse',\n                                                     '.git*',\n                                                     'hatch_build.py',\n                                                     'test_*.py'],\n                                         'hooks': {'custom': {}}},\n       '_WheelBuilderConfig__core_metadata_constructor': None,\n       '_WheelBuilderConfig__extra_metadata': None,\n       '_WheelBuilderConfig__macos_max_compat': None,\n       '_WheelBuilderConfig__shared_data': None,\n       '_WheelBuilderConfig__shared_scripts': None,\n       '_WheelBuilderConfig__strict_naming': None,\n       'build_artifact_spec': None,\n       'build_force_include': {},\n       'build_reserved_paths': set(),\n       'hook_config': {'custom': {}}}\n\n\n      Running cmake\n      C:\\Users\\Stefnotch\\AppData\\Local\\uv\\cache\\sdists-v9\\pypi\\ogdf-wheel\\2023.9\\lybCf4tAJyalrkxzFzCZo\\src\\ogdf\n      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON\n      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\\Users\\Stefnotch\\AppData\\Local\\uv\\cache\\sdists-v9\\pypi\\ogdf-wheel\\2023.9\\lybCf4tAJyalrkxzFzCZo\\src\\src\\ogdf_wheel\\install\n      -DOGDF_USE_ASSERT_EXCEPTIONS=ON -DOGDF_MEMORY_MANAGER=POOL_TS -DOGDF_WARNING_ERRORS=OFF\n      -DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH=$ORIGIN;@loader_path -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH=$ORIGIN;@loader_path -DMACOSX_RPATH=TRUE\n\n      [stderr]\n      Traceback (most recent call last):\n        File \"\u003cstring\u003e\", line 11, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n          wheel_filename = backend.build_wheel(\"C:\\\\Users\\\\Stefnotch\\\\AppData\\\\Local\\\\uv\\\\cache\\\\builds-v0\\\\.tmpASz6Rw\",\n      {}, None)\n        File \"C:\\Users\\Stefnotch\\AppData\\Local\\uv\\cache\\builds-v0\\.tmpXMbJLD\\Lib\\site-packages\\hatchling\\build.py\",\n      line 58, in build_wheel\n          return os.path.basename(next(builder.build(directory=wheel_directory, versions=['standard'])))\n                                  ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n        File\n      \"C:\\Users\\Stefnotch\\AppData\\Local\\uv\\cache\\builds-v0\\.tmpXMbJLD\\Lib\\site-packages\\hatchling\\builders\\plugin\\interface.py\",\n      line 147, in build\n          build_hook.initialize(version, build_data)\n          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n        File\n      \"C:\\Users\\Stefnotch\\AppData\\Local\\uv\\cache\\sdists-v9\\pypi\\ogdf-wheel\\2023.9\\lybCf4tAJyalrkxzFzCZo\\src\\hatch_build.py\",\n      line 131, in initialize\n          self.run(\"cmake\", self.ogdf_src_dir, *flags)\n          ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n        File\n      \"C:\\Users\\Stefnotch\\AppData\\Local\\uv\\cache\\sdists-v9\\pypi\\ogdf-wheel\\2023.9\\lybCf4tAJyalrkxzFzCZo\\src\\hatch_build.py\",\n      line 84, in run\n          return subprocess.run(args, capture_output=False, check=True, cwd=self.cmake_build_dir)\n                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n        File \"C:\\Users\\Stefnotch\\AppData\\Roaming\\uv\\python\\cpython-3.13.3-windows-x86_64-none\\Lib\\subprocess.py\", line\n      554, in run\n          with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:\n               ~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n        File \"C:\\Users\\Stefnotch\\AppData\\Roaming\\uv\\python\\cpython-3.13.3-windows-x86_64-none\\Lib\\subprocess.py\", line\n      1039, in __init__\n          self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,\n          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n                              pass_fds, cwd, env,\n                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n          ...\u003c5 lines\u003e...\n                              gid, gids, uid, umask,\n                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n                              start_new_session, process_group)\n                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n        File \"C:\\Users\\Stefnotch\\AppData\\Roaming\\uv\\python\\cpython-3.13.3-windows-x86_64-none\\Lib\\subprocess.py\", line\n      1551, in _execute_child\n          hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,\n                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n                                   # no special security\n                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n          ...\u003c4 lines\u003e...\n                                   cwd,\n                                   ^^^^\n                                   startupinfo)\n                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^\n      FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified\n\n      hint: This usually indicates a problem with the package or the build environment.\n  help: If you want to add the package regardless of the failed resolution, provide the `--frozen` flag to skip\n        locking and syncing\n```\n\nIt seems like installing ogdf-wheel fails.\n\nI'm happy to try out other things, just let me know.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/stefnotch","@type":"Person","name":"stefnotch"},"datePublished":"2025-04-21T20:11:51.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/8/ogdf-python/issues/8"}