[Msys2-users] Install wxPython 4 using python3.6 and pip

[Brendan S. (eTRIX) <bre...@et...>]

I've used wxPython 4 (4.0.1) on macos by simply installing with "pip3.6 
install wxPython".

I've also done this on Windows before using the Python.org install of 
python.

I tried doing "pip3.6 install wxPython" from and msys2 mingw64 shell but 
it didn't install/build.

It complains with `distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: VC 6.0 is 
not supported by this module`

It seems the msvc9compiler.py file is looking at `sys.version` to find 
the sub-string `MSC v.`, which isn't in `sys.version`, so VERSION is set 
to the default of 6.

Is this an msys2/mingw issue or a python issue?  How do I go about 
getting this to work?

    brend@BJS_DELL_17 MINGW64 ~
    $ pip3.6 install -U wxPython
    Collecting wxPython
       Using cached
    https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a4/4a/d35b19f8c21b414ece2b3dc02dcf8cb0d45d6fe5aacf56f7ca0b7c66ac58/wxPython-4.0.1.tar.gz
    Requirement not upgraded as not directly required: six in
    c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from wxPython) (1.11.0)
    Installing collected packages: wxPython
       Running setup.py install for wxPython ... error
         Complete output from command C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/python3.exe
    -u -c "import setuptools,
    tokenize;__file__='C:/Users/brend/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-8le1c189/wxPython/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/brend/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-record-p71raf86/install-record.txt
    --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
         running install
         running build
         WARNING: Building this way assumes that all generated files
    have been
         generated already.  If that is not the case then use build.py
    directly
         to generate the source and perform the build stage.  You can use
         --skip-build with the bdist_* or install commands to avoid this
         message and the wxWidgets and Phoenix build steps in the future.

         "C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/python3.exe" -u build.py build
         Will build using: "C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/python3.exe"
         3.6.5 (default, Apr 16 2018, 10:17:38)  [GCC 7.3.0 64 bit (AMD64)]
         Python's architecture is 64bit
         cfg.VERSION: 4.0.1

         Running command: build
         Running command: build_wx
         Command '"C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/python3.exe" -c "import
    distutils.msvc9compiler as msvc; mc = msvc.MSVCCompiler();
    mc.initialize(); print(mc.cc)"' failed with exit code 1.
         Traceback (most recent call last):
           File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
           File
    "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.6\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line
    297, in <module>
             raise DistutilsPlatformError("VC %0.1f is not supported by
    this module" % VERSION)
    distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: VC 6.0 is not supported by
    this module
         Finished command: build_wx (0.124s)
         Finished command: build (0.124s)
         Command '"C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/python3.exe" -u build.py build'
    failed with exit code 1.

    ----------------------------------------
    Command "C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/python3.exe -u -c "import setuptools,
    tokenize;__file__='C:/Users/brend/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-8le1c189/wxPython/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/brend/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-record-p71raf86/install-record.txt
    --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error
    code 1 in
    C:/Users/brend/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-8le1c189/wxPython/


Thanks,
Brendan.