ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (openpifpaf)

[atharva-khachane]

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 2169, in _get_vc_env
      return distutils._msvccompiler._get_vc_env(vc_arch)
  AttributeError: module 'distutils._msvccompiler' has no attribute '_get_vc_env'

  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 389, in <module>
      main()
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 373, in main
      json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 280, in build_wheel
      return _build_backend().build_wheel(
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 438, in build_wheel
      return _build(['bdist_wheel', '--dist-info-dir', str(metadata_directory)])
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 426, in _build
      return self._build_with_temp_dir(
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 407, in _build_with_temp_dir
      self.run_setup()
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
      exec(code, locals())
    File "<string>", line 61, in <module>
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 117, in setup
      return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 186, in setup
      return run_commands(dist)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 202, in run_commands
      dist.run_commands()
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 1002, in run_commands
      self.run_command(cmd)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 999, in run_command
      super().run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 1021, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\bdist_wheel.py", line 369, in run
      self.run_command("build")
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\cmd.py", line 357, in run_command
      self.distribution.run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 999, in run_command
      super().run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 1021, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build.py", line 140, in run
      self.run_command(cmd_name)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\cmd.py", line 357, in run_command
      self.distribution.run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 999, in run_command
      super().run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 1021, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-1g1wa4am\openpifpaf_adcfd391974d4f789f6dea44e9961c5e\versioneer.py", line 1853, in run
      _build_ext.run(self)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\build_ext.py", line 99, in run
      _build_ext.run(self)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 375, in run
      self.build_extensions()
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 900, in build_extensions
      build_ext.build_extensions(self)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 491, in build_extensions
      self._build_extensions_serial()
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 517, in _build_extensions_serial
      self.build_extension(ext)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\build_ext.py", line 264, in build_extension
      _build_ext.build_extension(self, ext)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\Cython\Distutils\build_ext.py", line 135, in build_extension
      super(build_ext, self).build_extension(ext)
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 572, in build_extension
      objects = self.compiler.compile(
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 872, in win_wrap_ninja_compile
      _write_ninja_file_and_compile_objects(
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 1869, in _write_ninja_file_and_compile_objects
      _run_ninja_build(
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 2187, in _run_ninja_build
      vc_env = {k.upper(): v for k, v in _get_vc_env(plat_spec).items()}
    File "C:\Users\khach\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py", line 2172, in _get_vc_env
      return _msvccompiler._get_vc_env(vc_arch)
  AttributeError: module 'distutils._msvccompiler' has no attribute '_get_vc_env'
  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for openpifpaf
Failed to build openpifpaf
ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (openpifpaf)

**How do I resolve This error??? I have python 3.10
**

[abravalheri]

See discussion in #4874.

This happens because pytorch is accessing a private member (which does not provide any guarantees of stability).

[atharva-khachane]

Got it but How do I resolve it??

[abravalheri]

Have you tried pinning an old version of setuptools while the issue is not solved in PyTorch? Or a newer version of PyTorch (in the case the problems has already been solved)?