[FIXED] Installing pocketsphinx python module: command 'swig.exe' failed

Issue

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\

Solution

To fix the problem, I downloaded swig for windows at the time of writing this answer it was 3.0.12

For the latest swig windows version follow this link

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

2. Open the 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

4. Open the swigwin-3.0.12/Lib folder and copy over the typemaps folder to C:/python27/Lib

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

These steps worked for me.

Answered By - Jay Shenawy