"ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyq which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly" when installing PyQ?

Question

I'm wondering if anyone has encountered any similar errors when attempting to install PyQ for Windows? I've tried both Anaconda and the Windows prompt and there doesn't appear to be any difference in the errors produced.

Any help is much appreciated!

I've included the link to a screenshot here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vofnr.png

Answer 1

You may try install VS code for C++ before installing PyQ, or you can install PyQ on Linux if possible.

Answer 2

Try this

pip install --upgrade setuptools

Answer 3

The issue was you need to have VS 2017 instead of the most recent version as PyQ for Windows isn't up to date with this regard (at the time of this writing, anyway).