OpenPIV Installation Error

Question

I am attempting the installation of OpenPIV (python build) on 64-bit Win7.

Upon downloading the setup files(located - https://github.com/alexlib/openpiv-python) and running:

python setup.py install

I receive the error:

error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

Some research informed me to use:

python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32

Which then resulted in:

error: command 'gcc' failed: No such file or directory.

So, I installed MinGW and adjusted the PATH variable to include C:\MinGW\bin, where gcc.exe is located, but no dice. Following this, I tried restarting my command prompt, restarting my computer, reinstalling MinGW, and reinstalling the setup files.

Running gcc:

C:\OpenPIV\> gcc
gcc:fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

Which I assume means gcc works, but

python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32

still results in:

error: command 'gcc' failed: No such file or directory.

Thanks everyone. Any suggestions/tips would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

After hours and hours of searching, I've discovered that this is a problem between MinGW and Python. They don't communicate well with one another.

There exists a binary package of MinGW (unofficial) that was meant for use with Python located here

This fixes the problem!