Instapy: Failed building wheel for regex

[ktarayao]

I have been using InstaPy for a while now and yesterday just re-pulled the repository down. It looks like there were some changes with the libraries and now I can't get it to work anymore. The problem is trying to install [regex]. I've tried doing a fresh install and creating a new virtualenv, but nothing seems to work. I'm using Windows and Python 3.4.4. I also see "error: INCLUDE environment variable is empty". I am not sure what to do next. This is the error message that I get:

Collecting regex
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/16/07/ee3e02770ed456a088b90da7c9b1e9aa227e3c956d37b845cef2aab93764/regex-2018.11.22.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: regex
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for regex ... error
Complete output from command C:\Users\ktarayao\Documents\Repos\InstaPy\venv2\Scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\Users\ktarayao\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-itlzveft\regex\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 C:\Users\ktarayao\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-wheel-rpmd5idv --python-tag cp34:
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.4
copying regex_3\regex.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.4
copying regex_3_regex_core.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.4
copying regex_3\test_regex.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.4
running build_ext
building '_regex' extension
error: INCLUDE environment variable is empty

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Failed building wheel for regex
Running setup.py clean for regex
Failed to build regex
Installing collected packages: regex
Running setup.py install for regex ... error
Complete output from command C:\Users\ktarayao\Documents\Repos\InstaPy\venv2\Scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\Users\ktarayao\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-itlzveft\regex\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\ktarayao\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-66d16d1i\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\ktarayao\Documents\Repos\InstaPy\venv2\include\site\python3.4\regex:
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.4
copying regex_3\regex.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.4
copying regex_3_regex_core.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.4
copying regex_3\test_regex.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.4
running build_ext
building '_regex' extension
error: INCLUDE environment variable is empty

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Command "C:\Users\ktarayao\Documents\Repos\InstaPy\venv2\Scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\Users\ktarayao\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-itlzveft\regex\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\ktarayao\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-66d16d1i\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\ktarayao\Documents\Repos\InstaPy\venv2\include\site\python3.4\regex" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\ktarayao\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-itlzveft\regex\

[jrbadiabo]

I have the same problem. Have found any solution to your question?

[ktarayao]

Sorry, no. I haven't found a solution yet and I haven't heard anyone else responding to this thread :'(

[Sahil624]

Same issue :(

[TarekJ03]

@uluQulu you had a solution for that on Discord, right?

[uluQulu]

Hey guys

Yes @TarekJ03

I shared the solution in _GitHub_ last year, and recently re-shared at _Discord_ for Marc,

People could easily find it if searched existing issues with the keywords of the issue they have.

Get the solution from #3481, in particular from https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/issues/3481#issuecomment-443598626.
@ktarayao @jrbadiabo @Sahil624

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@ktarayao, I noticed that you have a _Windows_ box.
Although the solution in that thread targets _Mac OS X_, it's explaining the issue, as well, so that you can solve it yourselves for your OS.

Let's dive more into it,
pip is just a tool to install the packages for you.
If package is pure python, it does not need to build it.
But if it has e.g. some C extension, then it has to build it in order to install..

regex package has C code inside it that's why it has to be built.
Okay fine, why it can't build?

1-) pip gets packages from _PyPI_ [by default]
2-) regex package serves built binary wheels only for the Windows platform.
It means, if you have other platform, then you - _your computer_/_device_ has to build it from its source code.
In particular, it serves the built binary wheel distributions only for these python versions:
2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
for both _Windows_ 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Apparently, your python is 3.4 and that's why even though you have a _Windows_ OS, you - _your pip_ has to build the regex package from its source.

What you can do?

• Make sure your system has C build tools available for pip to grab in order to install the regex package.

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Cheers 😁

[ktarayao]

Thank you so much. This was very helpful. I didn't realize that it was because of the Python 3.4 version. Upgrading Python to the newest version fixed it for me. Thank you for the help!

[programmerpinggiran]

im using ubuntu and done with this

If you are using Debian/Ubuntu+Python 3, you need to try this: $ sudo apt-get install python3-dev

[ghost]

For CentOS-7 users.

After a fresh install of a CentOS-7 1810 as virtual machine, I tried to install InstaPy in a virtualenv and got this error.
I fixed by installing python3-devel.x86_64 package.
Hope to help who are in my situation.

Bye.

[liuguiyangnwpu]

yum remove python3-devel.i686
yum install python3-devel.x86_64