pypi missing binary for windows

[mrx23dot]

Please add pre-compiled binary for windows x64/x32 to pypi.
Compiling on every client PC is impractical by pip installation.

[miniupnp]

@mrx23dot aren't packages available on https://ci.appveyor.com/project/miniupnp/miniupnp OK ?
if not, why ?

[mrx23dot]

Could we add them for pypi too? That's the most common lib distributor.
So pip install miniupnp would work.
should be very easy from appveyor: https://www.dynamsoft.com/codepool/appveyor-build-deploy-python-wheels.html

I tried to install it from whl on win10 x64:

pip install miniupnpc-2.2.3-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl
Processing c:\tmp\miniupnpc-2.2.3-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl
Installing collected packages: miniupnpc
Successfully installed miniupnpc-2.2.3

But loading it fails:

Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:59:51) [MSC v.1914 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import miniupnpc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

What DLLs does it use?

[miniupnp]

I'm neither a python developer, nor a Windows developer, so I'm not able to help you.

I'm accepting any Pull Request, but there have been a lot of people complaining the lack of precompiled python packages, and only a few offering help to build one.

[mrx23dot]

Only you have access to the appveyor, to take the built binaries from there to pypi you need to add this extra step:

deploy_script:
  - ps: |
      if($env:APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG -eq 'true') {
        Write-Output ("Deploying " + $env:APPVEYOR_REPO_TAG_NAME + " to PyPI...")
        &"${Env:PYTHON}/python.exe" -m pip install twine
        &"${Env:PYTHON}/python.exe" -m twine upload -u ${Env:USER} -p ${Env:PASS} --skip-existing dist/\*.whl
      } else {
        Write-Output "No tag for deployment"
      }

details https://www.dynamsoft.com/codepool/appveyor-build-deploy-python-wheels.html
it uses this lib to upload it: https://pypi.org/project/twine/
With binaries available more people can try it out, and get hooked.

[miniupnp]

Only you have access to the appveyor

???
you mean the appveyor script ? https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/blob/master/appveyor.yml

[mrx23dot]

I added windows binaries and instruction in my release:
https://github.com/mrx23dot/miniupnp/releases/tag/miniupnpd_2_2_3
appveyor only retains binaries for 1month.

Only you have permission to publish into your repo
https://pypi.org/project/miniupnpc/
"The user 'me' isn't allowed to upload to project 'miniupnpc'."

You can try it manually:
pip3 install twine
python3 -m twine upload -u username -p pwd --skip-existing *.whl *.zip

I tried to rename the project to try it out, but wheel need comes from folder structure.

[miniupnp]

Only you have permission to publish into your repo
https://pypi.org/project/miniupnpc/
"The user 'me' isn't allowed to upload to project 'miniupnpc'."

That is not my repo. I have no account on pypi.org. You should contact the listed maintainers.

[mrx23dot]

@niamster could you please join in?

[niamster]

@niamster could you please join in?

Hello, I'm not a maintainer of that package either, by chance I got permissions to manage granted by https://pypi.org/user/chenhouwu/ to be able to push one update. Did you reach him?

[mrx23dot]

I didn't find any contact detail, also I don't see him among the contributors.

[mrx23dot]

Could you grant me and miniupnp maintainer permission?

[niamster]

For some reason I can't do that

@laishulu I think that were you who gave me some permissions initially

[niamster]

@mrx23dot what's your pypi account? @laishulu granted me a maintainer permissions.

[mrx23dot]

Awesome, could you grant me too? pypi: mrx23dot

[mrx23dot]

pip install miniupnp
should work now on all Windows.
With an extra step of manually deploying scripts, from appropiate zip:
https://github.com/mrx23dot/miniupnp/releases/tag/miniupnpd_2_2_24

Auto copying those didnt work from yml.
Optimally binary should be portable.

[Julien00859]

Hello there, we have been trying to use miniupnpc on windows (installed from pypi), the installation goes well but import miniupnpc fails due to "missing DLL". Can you elaborate on how shall we install the package? I'm noticing there is no wheel for python3.8 see https://pypi.org/simple/miniupnpc/. Please note that we had to extensively search in order to find this issue, if this github repository is where we should report issues, could you please edit your setup.py/setup.cfg/pyproject.toml file so that it is mentioned?