build error

[shuangshuangOBA]

windows11 python3.12 build with errors:
Collecting stable-retro
Downloading https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/39/b3/befcc36eca41c11b9491b8eb2ed22fa0a4b47810f053858455186ac530a0/stable-retro-0.9.2.tar.gz (111.1 MB)
---------------------------------------- 111.1/111.1 MB 1.6 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [17 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\ProgramData\miniconda3\envs\envs\gpu\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 353, in
main()
File "D:\ProgramData\miniconda3\envs\envs\gpu\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 335, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "D:\ProgramData\miniconda3\envs\envs\gpu\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return hook(config_settings)
File "C:\Users\AI\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-trn4k_12\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
File "C:\Users\AI\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-trn4k_12\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 304, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
File "C:\Users\AI\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-trn4k_12\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 522, in run_setup
super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "C:\Users\AI\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-trn4k_12\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 15, in
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 1876: illegal multibyte sequence
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

[MatPoliquin]

We don't officially support Windows currently. That said you can use WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), it works quite well. I often prototype stable-retro related stuff with Ubuntu 22.04 running on Windows 11 via WSL2