error at building wheel for Pyinstaller (PEP 517)

[parmar652]

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[parmar652]

Failed to build PyInstaller
Error : Could not build wheels for PyInstaller which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

[qwhelan]

@parmar652 Could you fill out the requested bug details (eg, what OS and python version this is)?

[Passionate-coder997]

facing same error I'am using python 3.8.5 on windows 7 when I execute the command pip --version or pip list or python -m pip freeze then I'm getting NameError: pip is not defined

[jakeshoemaker]

getting the same error: Building wheel for pyinstaller (PEP 517) ... error

typing: pip install pyinstaller

leads to this --> Building wheel for pyinstaller (PEP 517) ... error
...
Successfully built pefile future
Failed to build pyinstaller
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyinstaller which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

python version: python version: 3.7.8
pip version: pip 20.2.1 from c:\users\jshoemaker\languages\python\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.7)
OS: windows 10

EDIT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I think my issue came from PyInstallers release to 4.0.

For me what did the trick was downgrading to python 3.7 (latest version of 3.7)
&
Downgrading to PyInstaller 3.6. Once I did these everything was smooth sailing.

[jakeshoemaker]

facing same error I'am using python 3.8.5 on windows 7 when I execute the command pip --version or pip list or python -m pip freeze then I'm getting NameError: pip is not defined

@Passionate-coder997 you need to add python and pip to path if pip isn't defined

[DeMaximilianster]

Well I found a solution here.

$ pip install pyinstaller --no-binary :all:

and it did the trick. But does anyone know if this is not safe?

[ibeuler]

...
.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

ERROR: Failed building wheel for scikit-image
Failed to build scikit-image
ERROR: Could not build wheels for scikit-image which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

those are the end of the error please I want a real solution to this problem I can't find any solves for this
and I am a new learner if the solution were in steps I will be thrilled.
thank you :)

[iskmac]

I got the same error and I had solved this by the following command:
easy_install pyinstaller

[rzimmerdev]

If using Windows OS, verify under Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > Virus & threat protection > Protection History if Windows is identifying the file for installing PyInstaller with Pip as potential malware and thus blocking it. Worked for me.

[gregsteruk100]

getting the same error: Building wheel for pyinstaller (PEP 517) ... error

typing: pip install pyinstaller

leads to this --> Building wheel for pyinstaller (PEP 517) ... error
...
Successfully built pefile future
Failed to build pyinstaller
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyinstaller which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

python version: python version: 3.7.8
pip version: pip 20.2.1 from c:\users\jshoemaker\languages\python\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.7)
OS: windows 10

EDIT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I think my issue came from PyInstallers release to 4.0.

For me what did the trick was downgrading to python 3.7 (latest version of 3.7)
&
Downgrading to PyInstaller 3.6. Once I did these everything was smooth sailing.

Thanks, worked for me too.

[Mazda88321]

I had the same problem and I change my python to 3.8 version and then I installed C++ "vs_buildtools__2044913657.1613396723"
and the problem solved.

[erdoukki]

same issue on OpenWrt 21.02-RC3 :

# python3 --version
Python 3.9.6

Well I found a solution here.

$ pip install pyinstaller --no-binary :all:

and it did the trick. But does anyone know if this is not safe?

# pip install pyinstaller --no-binary :all:

still gave errors :

root@ultra:~# pip install pyinstaller --no-binary :all:
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://packagecloud.io/crowdsec/crowdsec/pypi/simple
Collecting pyinstaller
  Using cached pyinstaller-4.4.tar.gz (3.8 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Collecting pyinstaller-hooks-contrib>=2020.6
  Downloading pyinstaller-hooks-contrib-2021.2.tar.gz (62 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 62 kB 311 kB/s 
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Collecting altgraph
  Downloading altgraph-0.17.tar.gz (534 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 534 kB 789 kB/s 
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from pyinstaller) (57.1.0)
Skipping wheel build for altgraph, due to binaries being disabled for it.
Building wheels for collected packages: pyinstaller, pyinstaller-hooks-contrib
  Building wheel for pyinstaller (PEP 517) ... error
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyinstaller
  Building wheel for pyinstaller-hooks-contrib (PEP 517) ... done
  Created wheel for pyinstaller-hooks-contrib: filename=pyinstaller_hooks_contrib-2021.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl size=190165 sha256=44cff0bd7694bfbc470e43aa70a6995d3093f73ca7e2ef41237bb86c8597039f
  Stored in directory: /tmp/.cache/wheels/a5/5e/70/25830079599392ba90be65d75ca952f26f2814f321c9a78464
Successfully built pyinstaller-hooks-contrib
Failed to build pyinstaller
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyinstaller which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

[Jakkwj]

I found a solution here.

$ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

After upgrade and then pip install pyinstaller, everything ok~