I am trying to install opencv-python on windows but after running the pip install opencv-python command I keep geting the following error: ERROR: Could not build wheels for opencv-python which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly.
I'm using python version 3.9.0 and pip version pip 20.2.4.
I've tried upgrading both my pip version as well as running pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel, as found on similar threads, but none of these seems to solve the issue.
The full console output after running the command:
Collecting opencv-python
Downloading opencv-python-4.4.0.44.tar.gz (88.9 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 88.9 MB 3.3 MB/s
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Collecting numpy>=1.17.3
Downloading numpy-1.19.2.zip (7.3 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 7.3 MB 6.4 MB/s
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: opencv-python, numpy
Building wheel for opencv-python (PEP 517) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: 'c:\users\david\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\python.exe' 'c:\users\david\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py' build_wheel 'C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpl1finc77'
cwd: C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-gfwb0hqn\opencv-python
Complete output (153 lines):
Not searching for unused variables given on the command line.
CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Ninja". CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set. You probably need to select a different build tool.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/Users/David/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-gfwb0hqn/opencv-python/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
Not searching for unused variables given on the command line.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:2 (PROJECT):
Generator
Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64
could not find any instance of Visual Studio.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/Users/David/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-gfwb0hqn/opencv-python/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
Not searching for unused variables given on the command line.
-- The C compiler identification is unknown
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:3 (ENABLE_LANGUAGE):
The CMAKE_C_COMPILER:
cl
is not a full path and was not found in the PATH.
To use the NMake generator with Visual C++, cmake must be run from a shell
that can use the compiler cl from the command line. This environment is
unable to invoke the cl compiler. To fix this problem, run cmake from the
Visual Studio Command Prompt (vcvarsall.bat).
Tell CMake where to find the compiler by setting either the environment
variable "CC" or the CMake cache entry CMAKE_C_COMPILER to the full path to
the compiler, or to the compiler name if it is in the PATH.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/Users/David/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-gfwb0hqn/opencv-python/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "C:/Users/David/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-gfwb0hqn/opencv-python/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
Not searching for unused variables given on the command line.
-- The C compiler identification is unknown
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:3 (ENABLE_LANGUAGE):
The CMAKE_C_COMPILER:
cl
is not a full path and was not found in the PATH.
To use the JOM generator with Visual C++, cmake must be run from a shell
that can use the compiler cl from the command line. This environment is
unable to invoke the cl compiler. To fix this problem, run cmake from the
Visual Studio Command Prompt (vcvarsall.bat).
Tell CMake where to find the compiler by setting either the environment
variable "CC" or the CMake cache entry CMAKE_C_COMPILER to the full path to
the compiler, or to the compiler name if it is in the PATH.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/Users/David/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-gfwb0hqn/opencv-python/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "C:/Users/David/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-gfwb0hqn/opencv-python/_cmake_test_compile/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
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scikit-build could not get a working generator for your system. Aborting build.
Building windows wheels for Python 3.9 requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.
Get it with "Visual Studio 2017":
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/
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ERROR: Failed building wheel for opencv-python
Building wheel for numpy (PEP 517) ... done
Created wheel for numpy: filename=numpy-1.19.2-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl size=4816060 sha256=18bd09a9c5e107a2e44f8466057d0b423a244fb84949a6d5a6d88534a58e1e4a
Stored in directory: C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-ephem-wheel-cache-v6mmdzxn\wheels\a3\17\dd\f2dba23a35bb6008732772ccfb13d3d0e537fbc6919ce6862b
Successfully built numpy
Failed to build opencv-python
ERROR: Could not build wheels for opencv-python which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly
Any kind of help would be appreciated, thanks!