ERROR: Could not build wheels for vizdoom which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

[Throne-myworld]

When I try to install the vizdoom using 'pip install',the error raised that :
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python3 /tmp/tmpoln7vkbf build_wheel /tmp/tmp6vsdacbc
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-kby3x8wx/vizdoom
Complete output (38 lines):
running bdist_wheel
running build
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/tmpoln7vkbf", line 280, in
main()
File "/tmp/tmpoln7vkbf", line 263, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "/tmp/tmpoln7vkbf", line 204, in build_wheel
return _build_backend().build_wheel(wheel_directory, config_settings,
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-jljcnwxe/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 230, in build_wheel
return self._build_with_temp_dir(['bdist_wheel'], '.whl',
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-jljcnwxe/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 215, in _build_with_temp_dir
self.run_setup()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-jljcnwxe/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 267, in run_setup
super(_BuildMetaLegacyBackend,
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-jljcnwxe/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 158, in run_setup
exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'), locals())
File "setup.py", line 147, in
setup(
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-jljcnwxe/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 153, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-jljcnwxe/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py", line 299, in run
self.run_command('build')
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "setup.py", line 125, in run
if os.path.exists(python_library):
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/genericpath.py", line 19, in exists
os.stat(path)
TypeError: stat: path should be string, bytes, os.PathLike or integer, not NoneType
ERROR: Failed building wheel for vizdoom
Failed to build vizdoom
ERROR: Could not build wheels for vizdoom which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly
And my OS info lies below:

Linux version 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft (Microsoft@Microsoft.com) (gcc version 5.4.0 (GCC) ) #1237-Microsoft Sat Sep 11 14:32:00 PST 2021

[Throne-myworld]

I've already run the required command sudo apt install cmake libboost-all-dev libsdl2-dev libfreetype6-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libbz2-dev libfluidsynth-dev libgme-dev libopenal-dev zlib1g-dev timidity tar nasm
but when I try to run pip install vizdoom, thing goes like that.

[mwydmuch]

Hello @Throne-myworld, thank you for reporting the issue. It should be fixed now. You can install the fixed version directly from the repo using: pip install git+https://github.com/mwydmuch/ViZDoom.git if you don't want to wait a bit longer for the new PyPi release.

[Throne-myworld]

Hello @Throne-myworld, thank you for reporting the issue. It should be fixed now. You can install the fixed version directly from the repo using: pip install git+https://github.com/mwydmuch/ViZDoom.git if you don't want to wait a bit longer for the new PyPi release.

Thanks a lot, I've just seen your reply relating the similar question and it works.

[Throne-myworld]

@mwydmuch although I run it on my linux, the command says:
vizdoom.vizdoom.ViZDoomErrorException: Could not initialize SDL video:
No available video device
but I've already installed SDL, what's the problem?

[mwydmuch]

@Throne-myworld do you run WSL or native Linux (your previous log - Linux version 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft suggests WSL)?

[Throne-myworld]

@Throne-myworld do you run WSL or native Linux (your previous log - Linux version 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft suggests WSL)?

yes, wsl

[Throne-myworld]

@Throne-myworld do you run WSL or native Linux (your previous log - Linux version 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft suggests WSL)?

yes, wsl
I installed Ubuntu on win10

[mwydmuch]

Ok, give me ~1h I will test it with clean WSL installation. Right now, I'm not sure if graphic applications work out-of-the-box on WSL. For sure, ViZDoom works on WSL, if you disable its window (game.set_window_visible(False)). You may also try native Windows build.

[Throne-myworld]

thank you very much

[mwydmuch]

@Throne-myworld so the GUI apps doesn't seems to work out-of-the-box on WSL on Windows 10 (at least on my machine). To make it work you need:

• Download and install X-Server (VcXsrv) on Windows: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
• Start it using Command Prompt (cmd.exe) on Windows: "C:\Program Files\VcXsrv\vcxsrv.exe" :0 -ac -terminate -lesspointer -multiwindow -clipboard -wgl -dpi auto
• On Ubuntu WSL instance set: export DISPLAY=:0
• Now you can lunch your graphical application inside Ubuntu WSL.

Unfortunately, even after these steps I get ViZDoom to display only white screen (as reported here: #468), it seems to be more general SDL2 and WSL issue. Since other windows like OpenCV's windows work correctly (this can be also used to preview the game as shown in examples/python/buffers.py).

So if you want to use ViZDoom on WSL I recommend using it with window disabled and use OpenCV for preview or use native Windows build.