kivy windows. Unable to get a Window, abort

[leia velonisha]

so, I was coding in linux. It runs perfectly fine and good.
Untill I want to make an exe for my .py script. I used my Windows7. downloaded kivy. ran the batch, and tried to run my script. However this error appeared

E:\Kivy-1.9.0-py2.7-win32-x86>python ex3.py -
[INFO              ] [Logger      ] Record log in C:\Users\TOSHIBA\.kivy\logs\ki
vy_15-08-03_8.txt
[INFO              ] [Kivy        ] v1.9.0
[INFO              ] [Python      ] v2.7.9 (default, Dec 10 2014, 12:24:55) [MSC
 v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
[INFO              ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_gif, img_sd
l2, img_pil (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO              ] [Factory     ] 173 symbols loaded
[INFO              ] [Text        ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO              ] [OSC         ] using <thread> for socket
[INFO              ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[CRITICAL          ] [Window      ] Unable to find any valuable Window provider
at all!
sdl2 - RuntimeError: No matching GL pixel format available
  File "E:\Kivy-1.9.0-py2.7-win32-x86\kivy27\kivy\core\__init__.py", line 65, in
 core_select_lib
    cls = cls()
  File "E:\Kivy-1.9.0-py2.7-win32-x86\kivy27\kivy\core\window\window_sdl2.py", l
ine 121, in __init__
    super(WindowSDL, self).__init__()
  File "E:\Kivy-1.9.0-py2.7-win32-x86\kivy27\kivy\core\window\__init__.py", line
 616, in __init__
    self.create_window()
  File "E:\Kivy-1.9.0-py2.7-win32-x86\kivy27\kivy\core\window\window_sdl2.py", l
ine 171, in create_window
    self.fullscreen, resizable, state)
  File "kivy\core\window\_window_sdl2.pyx", line 80, in kivy.core.window._window
_sdl2._WindowSDL2Storage.setup_window (kivy\core/window\_window_sdl2.c:1542)
    self.die()
  File "kivy\core\window\_window_sdl2.pyx", line 21, in kivy.core.window._window
_sdl2._WindowSDL2Storage.die (kivy\core/window\_window_sdl2.c:954)
    raise RuntimeError(<bytes> SDL_GetError())

[CRITICAL          ] [App         ] Unable to get a Window, abort.


and I have no idea how I can fix this :/
please help me

[qua non]

No matching GL pixel format available

This is usually raised when you do not have the correct window drivers.

Make sure to download the drivers from your GPU vendor not from Microsoft.

Microsoft is known to cripple OpenGL by only including OpenGL 1.x support in their drivers.

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[leia velonisha]

Hi I have installed other driver and it works! although kinda slower than in linux.
but when I tried to make exe with pyinstaller, this error came out

E:\kivywin\folder>pyinstaller --name touchtracer ..\kivy27\examples\demo\touchtr
acer\main.py
Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"E:\Kivy-1.9.0-py2.7-wi
n32-x86\Python27\python.exe"  "E:\kivywin\Python27\Scripts\pyinstaller.exe" --na
me touchtracer ..\kivy27\examples\demo\touchtracer\main.py'

[leia velonisha]

update = I just reinstalled pyinstaller for a few times. And then the problem solved

[Jaenal Kim]

Hi Leia, I'm having the same problem as you right there. Since you have fix the problem can you send me the driver that you previously install? It might be helpful to solved my problem. Thanks.

[Bill Janssen]

A really naive question:  how to I find out what my GPU vendor is?

Bill

[Keith Terrill]

I am having this problem.
Last year I attempted to use Kivy because of my interest in Cross Platform development between MicroSoft and Linux (Mint). I gave up after weeks of frustration trying to get it to work. I found that I could accomplish what I wanted with Tkinter.

Now, because of my interest in being Cross Platform with iPad, Android, and Linux, I have been brought back to looking at Kivy.

After a couple weeks of trying things, I am still here: "Unable to get a Window, abort."

Every place I look, I get different answers. Is Kivy so messed up, and disorganized despite what looks like very good documentation, that it is worthless?!!

Help, I am trying to get a Hello World to work... and it isn't.

[ZenCODE]

@Keith Terrill. Works easily for the most of us, but what did you try? What messages or errors do you get? Any logs? We can't help without knowing that...

[ivs...@mail.harvard.edu]

I was trying to figure out the same error (Unable to get a window abort) and came across this simple answer that works perfectly for me.

I am diseminating it because this problem appears to affect many users.

Hope it helps. Thank you so much Kent Tong

Kent Tong

Jan 8

no worry; I fixed it by copying libpng-16-16.dll from SDL2 into the dist folder.

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