Building wheel for insightface (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'error'

[LuizCesarLeite]

I'm trying to install insightface but always returning this:

[!]   Building wheel for insightface (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
[!]   exit code: 1
[!]
[!]   [213 lines of output]

Looking at the output I guess that the most important lines are:

[!]   C:\ComfyUI\ComfyUI_windows_portable_2\python_embeded\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\build_py.py:212: _Warning: Package 'insightface.thirdparty.face3d.mesh.cython' is absent from the `packages` configuration.

[!]   C:\ComfyUI\ComfyUI_windows_portable_2\python_embeded\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\build_py.py:212: _Warning: Package 'insightface.data.images' is absent from the `packages` configuration.

[!]   C:\ComfyUI\ComfyUI_windows_portable_2\python_embeded\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\build_py.py:212: _Warning: Package 'insightface.data.objects' is absent from the `packages` configuration.

I also noted this:

(error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/)

I downloaded and looks like it is installed but I can't confim it :-(

Any clues to fix all this mess?

[sahasraa]

are you using python 3.7 or later?
error in building wheels occurs mostly with older versions of python. i initially faced the same error but i upgraded my python version to 3.9. it is working fine

[LuizCesarLeite]

Thanks for the remider @sahasraa, I forgot to mention my setup:

• Win 11
• Python 3.11.9
• ComfyUI Portable