How to Fix Installation Issues for Pyaudio, Portaudio: "Fatal Error C1083: Cannot Open Include File: 'Portaudio.H': No Such File or Directory"

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

portaudio is not a Python package, it's a C library that's entirely independent of Python, so you can't install it via pip.

See the PortAudio for website for details on the official way to get it and install it on your platform.

AFAIK, the official way to get it on Windows is to download the source and then follow the instructions in the Tutorial for compiling it yourself. You probably want to build it with the same compiler you use for Python C extensions, although I'm not sure if that's required.

Or, if you're using a third-party package manager like Chocolatey on Windows, there's a good chance it can install PortAudio.

Or, if you use Anaconda or Miniconda for your Python, the conda package manager knows how to install non-Python packages that Python packages depend on, including portaudio.

Finally, there seem to be a number of people providing unofficial pre-compiled PortAudio binaries for Windows. If you search for "portaudio windows binary" or "portaudio windows pre-compiled" you'll find a number of them. I have no idea how well-tested, up-to-date, etc. any of these are.

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If you're using Anaconda/Miniconda, you should have used conda install pyaudio rather than pip install pyaudio in the first place. You should really only use pip for packages that aren't available on conda or conda-forge.

If you haven't set up conda-forge yet, you probably want to do that first:

conda config --add channels conda-forge 

And then, this should be all you need:

conda install pyaudio

Unlike the pip package, which just assumes you have portaudio installed properly, the conda package will either automatically install portaudio as a dependency for pyaudio, or tell you why it can't.

portaudio.h: No such file or directory

This should help

$ sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04, Python 3.7.2, pyaudio 0.2.11

Added 8th of Jan 2021:

On Ubuntu 20.04 you have to use:

$ sudo apt install portaudio19-dev python3-pyaudio

When I try to download PyAudio I just got this error message. This is so painful. Pls pleh

This might help, since it is the same problem you are having:

pyAudio failed to install : Windows 10

Basically you are missing some components you need before download pyaudio, and those are included by pipwin before installing so you don't have to do it yourself.

when installing pyaudio, pip cannot find portaudio.h in /usr/local/include

Since pyAudio has portAudio as a dependency, you first have to install portaudio.

brew install portaudio

Then try: pip install pyAudio. If the problem persists after installing portAudio, you can specify the directory path where the compiler will be able to find the source programs (e.g: portaudio.h). Since the headers should be in the /usr/local/include directory:

pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/usr/local/include' --global-option='-L/usr/local/lib' pyaudio

PyAudio failed to install on Windows 10

Try this (in admin mode command prompt):

pip install pipwin
pipwin install pyaudio

pipwin is like pip, but it installs precompiled Windows binaries provided by Christoph Gohlke. Saves you a lot of googling and manual downloading.

I am trying to install py audio from power shell(vs code) and it is giving me this error

Run the following 2 commands:

pip install pipwin

then

pipwin install pyaudio

How to fix error while trying to install some dependencies using pip

Using pipwin to install pyaudio will solve this

pip install pipwin

then

pipwin install pyaudio

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