pip install peewee fails on Windows

pip install peewee in an administrator PowerShell fails due to error: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

• OS: Windows 10
• Python: 3.6.4 Anaconda 64 bit
• Cython v0.27.3

The same error occurs when installing via git:

git clone https://github.com/coleifer/peewee.git
cd peewee
python setup.py install

Full error

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> pip install peewee
Collecting peewee
  Using cached peewee-3.1.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: peewee
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for peewee ... error
  Complete output from command c:\programdata\anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\MASTER~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-t74nv3gg\\peewee\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\MASTER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp9jj2p59dpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
  copying peewee.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
  copying pwiz.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\apsw_ext.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\dataset.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\db_url.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\fields.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\flask_utils.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\hybrid.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\migrate.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\pool.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\postgres_ext.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\reflection.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\shortcuts.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\signals.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\sqlcipher_ext.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\sqliteq.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\sqlite_ext.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\sqlite_udf.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\test_utils.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  copying playhouse\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
  running build_ext
  error: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for peewee
  Running setup.py clean for peewee
Failed to build peewee
Installing collected packages: peewee
  Running setup.py install for peewee ... error
    Complete output from command c:\programdata\anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\MASTER~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-t74nv3gg\\peewee\\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\MASTER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-i4m4596t-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
    copying peewee.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
    copying pwiz.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
    creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\apsw_ext.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\dataset.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\db_url.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\fields.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\flask_utils.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\hybrid.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\migrate.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\pool.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\postgres_ext.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\reflection.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\shortcuts.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\signals.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\sqlcipher_ext.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\sqliteq.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\sqlite_ext.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\sqlite_udf.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\test_utils.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    copying playhouse\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\playhouse
    running build_ext
    error: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

    ----------------------------------------
Command "c:\programdata\anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\MASTER~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-t74nv3gg\\peewee\\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\MASTER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-i4m4596t-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\MASTER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-t74nv3gg\peewee\

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> python --version
Python 3.6.4 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)

[coleifer]

Thanks for sharing the traceback, this is the problem:

playhouse/_sqlite_ext.c:531:21: fatal error: sqlite3.h: No such file or directory

It looks like you’ve got Cython and a C compiler installed, but are missing the SQLite3 headers. You should be able to:

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

I wonder if there’s a way, in setup.py, to test for the existence of the appropriate headers?

[pymq]

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

Thanks! Maybe it should be specified in the installation docs?