Pylot installation error

[Rahmathulla P]

Hi Cory,

I tried to install Pylot. Installation was fine except with an error related to PyOpenGL_accelerate. The following is the error.

  × Building wheel for PyOpenGL_accelerate (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for PyOpenGL_accelerate
Successfully built Pylot
Failed to build PyOpenGL_accelerate
ERROR: Could not build wheels for PyOpenGL_accelerate, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

I'm using Python 3.12 and I guess the problem is the version mis-match with PyOpenGL_accelerate. I saw the following related post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77346740/install-pyopengl-for-windows-under-python-3-12

I managed to install by downloading a python 3.12 compatible (unofficial version and hence may not be stable) from

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mz7faVsrp0e6IKCQh8MyZh-BcCqEGPwx.

When I ran pylot with the given examples files, there are some errors in simulator.py initialization like:

\pylot\simulator.py", line 58, in __init__

    self._render_graphics = self._input_dict["simulation"].get("enable_graphics", False)

Pylot\pylot\simulator.py", line 95, in __init__
    self._initialize_graphics()

Are they related to  PyOpenGL_accelerate?

I'm wondering if I should use a previous version of python to work with Pylot. Do you recommend any python version and dependencies for me to work?

Regards,

Rahmat

[Cory Goates]

Hi Rahmat

This is an issue that quite a few others have had, and, unfortunately, I've not had the bandwidth to dig into it. I really don't know what the solution is. I'm hoping I will have time to look into it in the near future.

Sorry, I know that's not very helpful. Please do let me know if you're able to figure it out!

Cory