Windows 11 System using powershell running on AMD 47 GB RAM python 3.14. Following is the error log
Collecting pygame>=2.5.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 19))
Downloading pygame-2.6.1.tar.gz (14.8 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 14.8/14.8 MB 29.7 MB/s 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [112 lines of output]
Skipping Cython compilation
WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
Using WINDOWS configuration...
Making dir :prebuilt_downloads:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-devel-2.28.4-VC.zip 25ef9d201ce3fd5f976c37dddedac36bd173975c
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloads\SDL2-devel-2.28.4-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/SDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-VC.zip 137f86474691f4e12e76e07d58d5920c8d844d5b
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloads\SDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_ttf/releases/download/release-2.20.1/SDL2_ttf-devel-2.20.1-VC.zip 371606aceba450384428fd2852f73d2f6290b136
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloads\SDL2_ttf-devel-2.20.1-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_mixer/releases/download/release-2.6.2/SDL2_mixer-devel-2.6.2-VC.zip 000e3ea8a50261d46dbd200fb450b93c59ed4482
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloads\SDL2_mixer-devel-2.6.2-VC.zip:
Downloading... https://github.com/pygame/pygame/releases/download/2.1.3.dev4/prebuilt-x64-pygame-2.1.4-20220319.zip 16b46596744ce9ef80e7e40fa72ddbafef1cf586
Unzipping :prebuilt_downloads\prebuilt-x64-pygame-2.1.4-20220319.zip:
copying into .\prebuilt-x64
Path for SDL: prebuilt-x64\SDL2-2.28.4
...Library directory for SDL: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.28.4/lib/x64
...Include directory for SDL: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.28.4/include
Path for FONT: prebuilt-x64\SDL2_ttf-2.20.1
...Library directory for FONT: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.20.1/lib/x64
...Include directory for FONT: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.20.1/include
Path for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64\SDL2_image-2.0.5
...Library directory for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/lib/x64
...Include directory for IMAGE: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/include
Path for MIXER: prebuilt-x64\SDL2_mixer-2.6.2
...Library directory for MIXER: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.6.2/lib/x64
...Include directory for MIXER: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.6.2/include
Path for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64
...Library directory for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64/lib
...Include directory for PORTMIDI: prebuilt-x64/include
DLL for SDL2: prebuilt-x64/SDL2-2.28.4/lib/x64/SDL2.dll
DLL for SDL2_ttf: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_ttf-2.20.1/lib/x64/SDL2_ttf.dll
DLL for SDL2_image: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/lib/x64/SDL2_image.dll
DLL for SDL2_mixer: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_mixer-2.6.2/lib/x64/SDL2_mixer.dll
DLL for portmidi: prebuilt-x64/lib/portmidi.dll
Path for FREETYPE: prebuilt-x64
...Library directory for FREETYPE: prebuilt-x64/lib
...Include directory for FREETYPE: prebuilt-x64/include
Path for PNG not found.
...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
Path for JPEG not found.
...Found include dir but no library dir in prebuilt-x64.
DLL for freetype: prebuilt-x64/lib/freetype.dll
DLL for png: prebuilt-x64/SDL2_image-2.0.5/lib/x64/libpng16-16.dll
---
For help with compilation see:
https://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileWindows
To contribute to pygame development see:
https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
---
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-f5aq0wo0\pygame_d96b457fa80748b599b435ee342db598\buildconfig\vstools.py", line 4, in <module>
from distutils.msvccompiler import MSVCCompiler, get_build_architecture
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-f5aq0wo0\pygame_d96b457fa80748b599b435ee342db598\buildconfig\config_win.py", line 336, in configure
from . import vstools
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-f5aq0wo0\pygame_d96b457fa80748b599b435ee342db598\buildconfig\vstools.py", line 6, in <module>
from setuptools._distutils.msvccompiler import MSVCCompiler, get_build_architecture
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools._distutils.msvccompiler'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-f5aq0wo0\pygame_d96b457fa80748b599b435ee342db598\buildconfig\vstools.py", line 4, in <module>
from distutils.msvccompiler import MSVCCompiler, get_build_architecture
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\projects\HAL9000\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 389, in <module>
main()
~~~~^^
File "D:\projects\HAL9000\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 373, in main
json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "D:\projects\HAL9000\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 143, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return hook(config_settings)
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-vae548ly\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 333, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-vae548ly\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 301, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-vae548ly\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 520, in run_setup
super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-vae548ly\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 317, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "<string>", line 432, in <module>
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-f5aq0wo0\pygame_d96b457fa80748b599b435ee342db598\buildconfig\config.py", line 234, in main
deps = CFG.main(**kwds, auto_config=auto)
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-f5aq0wo0\pygame_d96b457fa80748b599b435ee342db598\buildconfig\config_win.py", line 493, in main
return setup_prebuilt_sdl2(prebuilt_dir)
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-f5aq0wo0\pygame_d96b457fa80748b599b435ee342db598\buildconfig\config_win.py", line 453, in setup_prebuilt_sdl2
DEPS.configure()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-f5aq0wo0\pygame_d96b457fa80748b599b435ee342db598\buildconfig\config_win.py", line 338, in configure
from buildconfig import vstools
File "C:\Users\William Correia\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-f5aq0wo0\pygame_d96b457fa80748b599b435ee342db598\buildconfig\vstools.py", line 6, in <module>
from setuptools._distutils.msvccompiler import MSVCCompiler, get_build_architecture
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools._distutils.msvccompiler'
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
Windows 11 System using powershell running on AMD 47 GB RAM python 3.14. Following is the error log
Collecting pygame>=2.5.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 19))
Downloading pygame-2.6.1.tar.gz (14.8 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 14.8/14.8 MB 29.7 MB/s 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [112 lines of output]
Skipping Cython compilation
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
[notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.3 -> 26.1.2
[notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
ERROR: Failed to build 'pygame' when getting requirements to build wheel