How to fix installation issues for PyAudio, PortAudio: "fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'portaudio.h': No such file or directory"

Question

I am having issues installing PyAudio and portaudio.

When I do python -m pip install pyaudio I get this error:

    src/_portaudiomodule.c(29): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'portaudio.h': No such file or directory
    error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.14.26428\\bin\\HostX86\\x86\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
    ----------------------------------------
Command ""C:\Users\This PC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\python.exe" -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\THISPC~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-3ock7jqh\\pyaudio\\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\THISPC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-14pe9p6y\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\THISPC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-3ock7jqh\pyaudio\

So after looking that error up, I read I need to install portaudio. So I did python -m pip install portaudio and got this error:

Collecting portaudio
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement portaudio (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for portaudio

I have no idea where to go from here now.

Answer 1

Try This, CMD as Administrator and run the following:

pip install pipwin
pipwin install pyaudio