pip install fails on Windows 10, Python 3

[AEFeinstein]

Describe the bug
pip install fretwork fails to install fretwork on Windows. During installation, the find_command() function in setup.py looks for the file .\win32\deps\bin\pkg-config.exe which it cannot find. This is supposed to be in the dependency pack, but because pip is running setup.py from a temp folder, I don't see how the dependency could be placed there.

Error message

PS C:\Users\AFeinstein> pip install fretwork
Collecting fretwork
  Using cached fretwork-0.4.0.tar.gz (76 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'c:\python38\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\AFeinstein\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-pc9dy2rv\\fretwork\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\AFeinstein\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-pc9dy2rv\\fretwork\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\AFeinstein\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-pip-egg-info-f8y2ubrp'
         cwd: C:\Users\AFeinstein\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pc9dy2rv\fretwork\
    Complete output (3 lines):
    checking for program pkg-config... not found
    Could not find required program "pkg-config".
    (Check that you have the latest version of the dependency pack installed.)
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

To Reproduce
Run pip install fretwork from a Windows operating system

Screenshots
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Environment (please complete the following information):

• Windows 10
• Python 3.8.0

[nitecoder]

Having this problem as well. I've tried installing pkg-config following https://stackoverflow.com/a/1711338
But pip install still fails to find it even though I can find it on command line via pkg-config.

• Python 2.7, Windows 10.
• Virtual environment
• PowerShell

I also tried downloading whl file for fretworks from https://github.com/fofix/fretwork/releases but installing it gives an error "
$ pip install .\tmp\fretwork-0.4.0-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
ERROR: fretwork-0.4.0-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

Also, "Windows dependencies pack" link on this page https://github.com/fofix/fretwork doesn't work.
http://fofix.net/downloads/fofix-win32-deppack-20130304-updated.zip

I'm not usually working on Windows, so at this point I'm at a loss... But I could try other things given a good hint :)

[nitecoder]

Update - I was able to get pip install -r requirements.txt to work.
The trick is to read instructions 🤦

• Only Python 2.7 32 bit is supported (I had tried 64 bit)
• Windows dependencies pack is linked from Readme file (it's on dropbox now)

[Linkid]

Hi ! Thank you for reporting this bug.
For now, there are few wheels. In future releases, we need to build more wheels, especially if sources doesn't build via pip :x.
About the dependency pack, we need to update the link in the README file.
Here are the tasks, then:

• update the Windows dependency pack link in the README file
• make more Windows wheels
• add a warning about the Windows dependency pack to put it in the PATH if not found.