Installing pocketsphinx python module: command 'swig.exe' failed

Question

I'm getting something like this. Can anyone please tell me how to fix this.

C:\Users\krush\Documents\ML using Python>pip install pocketsphinx
Collecting pocketsphinx
  Using cached pocketsphinx-0.1.3.zip
Building wheels for collected packages: pocketsphinx
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pocketsphinx: started
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pocketsphinx: finished with status 'error'
  Complete output from command C:\Users\krush\Anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\krush\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-cns2i_wb\\pocketsphinx\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\krush\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp3tyvnl9wpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build_ext
  building 'sphinxbase._ad' extension
  swigging swig/sphinxbase/ad.i to swig/sphinxbase/ad_wrap.c
  swig.exe -python -modern -Ideps/sphinxbase/include -Ideps/sphinxbase/include/sphinxbase -Ideps/sphinxbase/include/win32 -Ideps/sphinxbase/swig -outdir sphinxbase -o swig/sphinxbase/ad_wrap.c swig/sphinxbase/ad.i
  error: command 'swig.exe' failed: No such file or directory

  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for pocketsphinx
  Running setup.py clean for pocketsphinx
Failed to build pocketsphinx
Installing collected packages: pocketsphinx
  Running setup.py install for pocketsphinx: started
    Running setup.py install for pocketsphinx: finished with status 'error'
    Complete output from command C:\Users\krush\Anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\krush\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-cns2i_wb\\pocketsphinx\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\krush\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-x5mxeczy-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build_ext
    building 'sphinxbase._ad' extension
    swigging swig/sphinxbase/ad.i to swig/sphinxbase/ad_wrap.c
    swig.exe -python -modern -Ideps/sphinxbase/include -Ideps/sphinxbase/include/sphinxbase -Ideps/sphinxbase/include/win32 -Ideps/sphinxbase/swig -outdir sphinxbase -o swig/sphinxbase/ad_wrap.c swig/sphinxbase/ad.i
    error: command 'swig.exe' failed: No such file or directory

    ----------------------------------------
Command "C:\Users\krush\Anaconda3\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\krush\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-cns2i_wb\\pocketsphinx\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\krush\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-x5mxeczy-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\krush\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-cns2i_wb\pocketsphinx\

Answer 1

To fix the problem, I downloaded swig for windows

1. Copy swig.exe to the python installation folder (for ex C:/python27)

2. Open swigwin-3.0.12/Lib folder and copy all *.swg files to the C:/python27/lib or equivalent python path

3. Open swigwin-3.0.12/lib/python and copy all the files to (C:/python27/lib)

(Also make sure you have Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python installed)

These steps worked for me.