Pip install gmsh-dev: Failed building wheel, running setup.py install instead
I uninstalled gmsh to avoid any conflicts. Then I run the command pip install --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir gmsh-dev.
It produces the following output (Windows 10, python 3.8.5, pip 20.3.3:
Collecting gmsh-dev
Downloading gmsh-dev-4.7.1.dev7.tar.gz (11 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: gmsh-dev
Building wheel for gmsh-dev (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
(a very long log here)
copying gmsh-git-Windows64-sdk\share\doc\gmsh\demos\boolean\intersect_line_volume.geo -> build\bdist.win-amd64\wheel\gmsh_dev-4.7.1.dev7.data\data\lib\site-packages\gmsh-git-Windows64-sdk\share\doc\gmsh\demos\boolean
error: could not create 'build\bdist.win-amd64\wheel\gmsh_dev-4.7.1.dev7.data\data\lib\site-packages\gmsh-git-Windows64-sdk\share\doc\gmsh\demos\boolean\intersect_line_volume.geo': No such file or directory
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Failed building wheel for gmsh-dev
Running setup.py clean for gmsh-dev
Failed to build gmsh-dev
Installing collected packages: gmsh-dev
Running setup.py install for gmsh-dev ... done
DEPRECATION: gmsh-dev was installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because a wheel could not be built for it. pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality. A possible replacement is to fix the wheel build issue reported above. You can find discussion regarding this at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8368.
Successfully installed gmsh-dev-4.7.1.dev7