Will you be able to install pycairo using pip?

Hopefully eventually :)

To make this work everywhere we will need to be able to build binary wheels for most of the wanted architectures, then upload these to pip.

I've brought claiming the pycairo package up multiple times on #pypa, but didn't get a response. Either I was too annoying or they are busy with other things. (@dstufft ?)

We could also use the 'cairo' name, but I fear that will lead to confusion and I'd like to avoid it.

or use pip install https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo/releases/download/v1.13.1/pycairo-1.13.1.tar.gz

Doesn't work for me.

hm, for some reason your pip tries ot use setuptools, but pycairo uses distutils. Will have a look, thanks.

This should work now: pip install --user git+https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo.git

I've filed a request: https://sourceforge.net/p/pypi/support-requests/728/

New bugfix release is out: pip install https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo/releases/download/v1.13.2/pycairo-1.13.2.tar.gz should work as well now.

I'm getting this error:

There is no Windows support yet (besides mingw/msys2), you can try installing wheels from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/%7Egohlke/pythonlibs/#pycairo

Hi,
I'm getting this error:

I'm using Mac Sierra. And I've tried already installed Cairo via both fink (which has only Cairo 1.12), and then by macports (which has Cairo 1.14), so I'm not sure which file the build is failing to find.
Thanks!

This is the same error as two comments up.

You are missing pkg-config

Hi Lazka,
Thanks for the response. I did see the similarity in the error message, but it sounded from your response that the problem was that it was Windows issue. I'm not clear what the issue (and solution) would be for Mac users. Any clarification would be appreciated. Thanks!

Ah, sorry, missed that. pkg-config is used by pycairo for finding your cairo library location. If you use macports I think installing the package pkgconfig should help. You can check that everything works by using pkg-config --modversion cairo, which should print out the cairo version.

The next pycairo release should have a better error message than what you got. See #60

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!!

In case there's any interest, I found that it is relatively easy to build a manylinux wheel for pycairo. The build script is at https://gist.github.com/anntzer/a03230f94e6d111ba3abc737d5091b99 -- you essentially just need docker installed, the script should fetch the manylinux build image and run the wheel build.

Thanks

Is the pypi ownership thing still an issue ?

Yes, no progress there.

Will try and poke some people and see what happens.

Thanks @stuaxo

No probs, they really need to put a note on the sourceforge page to use that github repo!

@stuaxo I've added you as an owner on pypi as well, so losing access doesn't happen again.

Fantastic work :), this re-enables the pycairo usage for all sorts of users.

Great to see a new version on pypi after 7 years (!).

I needed to
apt-get install python-dev
prior to
pip install pycairo

Having trouble making this work in a (mini)conda virtual environment.

Running Arch linux. I have libxcb installed, and have checked that /usr/include/xcb/xcb.h
does exist.

Works fine at system level.. any ideas?

Weird, afaik /usr/include should be a default search path of your compiler.

export CFLAGS='-I/usr/include $CFLAGS' maybe?

Yeah - that's what I thought! Modifying CFLAGS stopped that error 😄, but immediately hit another one 😢:

I'm not sure where to start interpreting this one..

hm, no idea, I've never used mini/anaconda. Maybe try recreating that environment?

Just tried on a fresh environment and it worked.. odd. Thanks for the thoughts!

On mac, ensure the cairo package is installed (brew install cairo) before attempting to install via pip

While installing pycairo as a dependency, I needed to run
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev
before I could get
pip install pycairo to run.
It threw a Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Ref

This will be the case - on Linux and OSX pycairo gives you bindings to the installed version of the cairo library.
On Windows things are different, so we bring our our own version.

The docs could probably be improved, by including an install section for different operating systems.

I've added some code in pygobject to produce a more helpful error message: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject/commit/71eadb88fe75bfda66d449f46cde4b1eb958e4f4

Maybe we should add something similar here.

Very nice :)

On mac it gets tricky as there can be homebrew or macports.. (or often, when people are new and trying things you come across a system with both).

I've got a really ancient script in shoebot that you can probably grab the names of the cairo packages from -
https://github.com/shoebot/shoebot/blob/master/install/install_dependencies.sh#L13

Hi, I do have another error here:
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I just reset my Mac's python to the Homebrew latest AND also tried using a virtualenv, but no matter what I get a similar error to @DrUlysses:

Hombrew

virtualenv:

I guess what I'm saying is it appears the pycairo install issue on Mac is not necessarily dependent on environmental issues.

brew install cairo worked for me

this is my 64-bit pc. i tried to install pycairo using msys/mingw.
what should i do now?
thanks!!

Hello all, I wanted to install pycairo but I couldn't manage to, is there anyone who knows what this error message is about?

Command '/usr/bin/python -u -c 'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/c7/c29gh98s2nj3_s7254frwz5h0000gn/T/pip-req-build-DYzaKm/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('rn', 'n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))' install --record /private/var/folders/c7/c29gh98s2nj3_s7254frwz5h0000gn/T/pip-record-wgdSi1/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=' failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/c7/c29gh98s2nj3_s7254frwz5h0000gn/T/pip-req-build-DYzaKm/

Hi @alfalimawhiskey
Which operating system are you using ?

Cheers
S

macOS High Sierra v10.13.6 @stuaxo

Same problem here

Here's all output:

Notice that 'pkg-config' not found.
If your have the same problem with me, do brew install pkg-config and, problem solved.

First I installed homebrew, then pkg-config, and then installed pycairo using $ brew install python cairo, worked for me. I installed using $ pip3 install pycairo just to make sure and it is all good. Thanks a lot. @45gfg9

Cheers, that saved me getting the mac working, I wasn't sure if you were also using brew.