python - Cannot Install PyAudio, portaudiomodule error

Question

Currently trying to install PyAudio on my Surface Pro 7, and am getting this error code when I try to use the prompt pip install PyAudio to install it:

 ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:

src/_portaudiomodule.c: note: see previous definition of 'MS_WIN64'
    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\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.28.29333\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2

Can someone help explain why this won't work, please? Thanks!

Answer 1

Download a wheel file from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and install via pip install wheelfile.whl. Check your python version before downloading.