Fretwork package installation

[Tinkerbell2102]

Having issues installing the Fretwork package. New to the python language (I'm a student). Any help would be great. Thank you

[DjMike238]

I guess it should be fretwork, not frerwork. You just spelled it incorrectly.

[Tinkerbell2102]

Even with the correct spelling I have this error, I have discused this with a few friends, my teacher and non of us can figure out whats wrong

[AEFeinstein]

You can download the the setup.py file that is run from here: https://pypi.org/project/fretwork/#files (it's in fretwork-0.4.0.tar.gz). If you search in there for the error "could not find the required program" you find this:

def find_command(cmd):
    '''Find a program on the PATH, or, on win32, in the dependency pack.'''

    sys.stdout.write('checking for program %s... ' % cmd)

    if os.name == 'nt':
        # Only accept something from the dependency pack.
        path = os.path.join('.', 'win32', 'deps', 'bin', cmd + '.exe')
    else:
        # Search the PATH.
        path = None
        for dir in os.environ['PATH'].split(os.pathsep):
            if os.access(os.path.join(dir, cmd), os.X_OK):
                path = os.path.join(dir, cmd)
                break

    if path is None or not os.path.isfile(path):
        print('not found')
        sys.stderr.write('Could not find required program "%s".\n' % cmd)
        if os.name == 'nt':
            sys.stderr.write('(Check that you have the latest version of the dependency pack installed.)\n')
        sys.exit(1)

    print(path)
    return path

So on Windows, it's looking specifically for the file .\win32\deps\bin\pkg-config.exe which it cannot find because it doesn't exist. I don't know why it's written this way, but it's really bad for pip. You're better off following the instructions on fofix's main page, which has you download the dependency pack and put it where it needs to be.

[Linkid]

This bug is related to this one : fofix/fretwork#59.