Tables & h5py dependency error

[Thepuck1999]

I followed the instructions to install merlin. I have also created the appropriate .env file with the path to parameters, data and analysis folder. I wanted to test the setup using the code structure mentioned in the documentation

$ merlin -a analysis.json -m microscope_parameters.json -o dataorganization.csv -c codebook_0_M22E1_0.csv -n 5 testdata

The code when run shows error when importing the tables module

  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\merfish2\Scripts\merlin-script.py", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('merlin', 'console_scripts', 'merlin')())
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\merfish2\Scripts\merlin-script.py", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\merfish2\lib\site-packages\importlib_metadata\__init__.py", line 194, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\merfish2\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 994, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 971, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 941, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 994, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 971, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 665, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 678, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "c:\users\dpant\downloads\merlin\merlin\__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from merlin.core import dataset
  File "c:\users\dpant\downloads\merlin\merlin\core\dataset.py", line 20, in <module>
    import tables
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\merfish2\lib\site-packages\tables\__init__.py", line 99, in <module>
    from .utilsextension import (
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

Here are the lsit of packages I have installed

$ conda list
# packages in environment at C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\merfish2:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
alabaster                 0.7.12                   pypi_0    pypi
appdirs                   1.4.4                    pypi_0    pypi
atomicwrites              1.4.0                    pypi_0    pypi
attrs                     21.2.0                   pypi_0    pypi
babel                     2.9.1                    pypi_0    pypi
blas                      1.0                         mkl
blosc                     1.21.0               h19a0ad4_0
boto3                     1.20.3                   pypi_0    pypi
botocore                  1.23.3                   pypi_0    pypi
bzip2                     1.0.8                he774522_0
cached-property           1.5.2                    pypi_0    pypi
cachetools                4.2.4                    pypi_0    pypi
certifi                   2021.5.30        py36haa95532_0
charset-normalizer        2.0.7                    pypi_0    pypi
colorama                  0.4.4                    pypi_0    pypi
configargparse            1.5.3                    pypi_0    pypi
connection-pool           0.0.3                    pypi_0    pypi
coverage                  6.1.2                    pypi_0    pypi
cycler                    0.11.0                   pypi_0    pypi
cython                    0.29.24                  pypi_0    pypi
datrie                    0.8.2                    pypi_0    pypi
decorator                 4.4.2                    pypi_0    pypi
docutils                  0.15.2                   pypi_0    pypi
filelock                  3.3.2                    pypi_0    pypi
gitdb                     4.0.9                    pypi_0    pypi
gitpython                 3.1.18                   pypi_0    pypi
google-api-core           2.2.2                    pypi_0    pypi
google-auth               2.3.3                    pypi_0    pypi
google-cloud-core         2.2.1                    pypi_0    pypi
google-cloud-storage      1.42.3                   pypi_0    pypi
google-crc32c             1.3.0                    pypi_0    pypi
google-resumable-media    2.1.0                    pypi_0    pypi
googleapis-common-protos  1.53.0                   pypi_0    pypi
h5py                      2.10.0           py36h5e291fa_0
hdf5                      1.10.4               h7ebc959_0
icc_rt                    2019.0.0             h0cc432a_1
idna                      3.3                      pypi_0    pypi
imageio                   2.10.3                   pypi_0    pypi
imagesize                 1.3.0                    pypi_0    pypi
importlib-metadata        4.8.2                    pypi_0    pypi
iniconfig                 1.1.1                    pypi_0    pypi
intel-openmp              2021.4.0          haa95532_3556
ipython-genutils          0.2.0                    pypi_0    pypi
jinja2                    3.0.3                    pypi_0    pypi
jmespath                  0.10.0                   pypi_0    pypi
joblib                    1.1.0                    pypi_0    pypi
jsonschema                3.2.0                    pypi_0    pypi
jupyter-core              4.9.1                    pypi_0    pypi
kiwisolver                1.3.1                    pypi_0    pypi
libspatialindex           1.9.3                h6c2663c_0
lz4-c                     1.9.3                h2bbff1b_1
lzo                       2.10                 he774522_2
markupsafe                2.0.1                    pypi_0    pypi
matplotlib                3.3.4                    pypi_0    pypi
merlin                    0.1.6                     dev_0    <develop>
mkl                       2020.2                      256
mkl-service               2.3.0            py36h196d8e1_0
mkl_fft                   1.3.0            py36h46781fe_0
mkl_random                1.1.1            py36h47e9c7a_0
mock                      4.0.3              pyhd3eb1b0_0
nbformat                  5.1.3                    pypi_0    pypi
networkx                  2.5.1                    pypi_0    pypi
numexpr                   2.7.3            py36hcbcaa1e_0
numpy                     1.19.5                   pypi_0    pypi
numpy-base                1.19.2           py36ha3acd2a_0
opencv-python             4.5.4.58                 pypi_0    pypi
packaging                 21.2                     pypi_0    pypi
pandas                    1.1.5                    pypi_0    pypi
pillow                    8.4.0                    pypi_0    pypi
pip                       21.2.2           py36haa95532_0
pluggy                    1.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
protobuf                  3.19.1                   pypi_0    pypi
psutil                    5.8.0                    pypi_0    pypi
pulp                      2.5.1                    pypi_0    pypi
py                        1.11.0                   pypi_0    pypi
pyasn1                    0.4.8                    pypi_0    pypi
pyasn1-modules            0.2.8                    pypi_0    pypi
pyclustering              0.10.1.2                 pypi_0    pypi
pygments                  2.10.0                   pypi_0    pypi
pyparsing                 2.4.7                    pypi_0    pypi
pyqt5                     5.15.6                   pypi_0    pypi
pyqt5-qt5                 5.15.2                   pypi_0    pypi
pyqt5-sip                 12.9.0                   pypi_0    pypi
pyreadline                2.1                      py36_1
pyrsistent                0.18.0                   pypi_0    pypi
pytables                  3.6.1            py36h1da0976_0
pytest                    6.2.5                    pypi_0    pypi
pytest-cov                3.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
python                    3.6.13               h3758d61_0
python-dateutil           2.8.2                    pypi_0    pypi
python-dotenv             0.19.2                   pypi_0    pypi
pytz                      2021.3                   pypi_0    pypi
pywavelets                1.1.1                    pypi_0    pypi
pywin32                   302                      pypi_0    pypi
pyyaml                    6.0                      pypi_0    pypi
ratelimiter               1.2.0.post0              pypi_0    pypi
requests                  2.26.0                   pypi_0    pypi
rsa                       4.7.2                    pypi_0    pypi
rtree                     0.9.7            py36h2eaa2aa_1
s3transfer                0.5.0                    pypi_0    pypi
scikit-image              0.17.2                   pypi_0    pypi
scikit-learn              0.24.2                   pypi_0    pypi
scipy                     1.5.4                    pypi_0    pypi
seaborn                   0.11.2                   pypi_0    pypi
setuptools                58.0.4           py36haa95532_0
shapely                   1.5.9                    pypi_0    pypi
six                       1.16.0             pyhd3eb1b0_0
smart-open                5.2.1                    pypi_0    pypi
smmap                     5.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
snakemake                 6.10.0                   pypi_0    pypi
snowballstemmer           2.1.0                    pypi_0    pypi
sphinx                    4.3.0                    pypi_0    pypi
sphinx-rtd-theme          1.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
sphinxcontrib-applehelp   1.0.2                    pypi_0    pypi
sphinxcontrib-devhelp     1.0.2                    pypi_0    pypi
sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp    2.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
sphinxcontrib-jsmath      1.0.1                    pypi_0    pypi
sphinxcontrib-qthelp      1.0.3                    pypi_0    pypi
sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.5                    pypi_0    pypi
sqlite                    3.36.0               h2bbff1b_0
stopit                    1.1.2                    pypi_0    pypi
tables                    3.6.1                    pypi_0    pypi
tabulate                  0.8.9                    pypi_0    pypi
threadpoolctl             3.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
tifffile                  2020.9.3                 pypi_0    pypi
toml                      0.10.2                   pypi_0    pypi
tomli                     1.2.2                    pypi_0    pypi
toposort                  1.7                      pypi_0    pypi
traitlets                 4.3.3                    pypi_0    pypi
typing-extensions         3.10.0.2                 pypi_0    pypi
urllib3                   1.26.7                   pypi_0    pypi
vc                        14.2                 h21ff451_1
vs2015_runtime            14.27.29016          h5e58377_2
wheel                     0.37.0             pyhd3eb1b0_1
wincertstore              0.2              py36h7fe50ca_0
wrapt                     1.13.3                   pypi_0    pypi
xmltodict                 0.12.0                   pypi_0    pypi
zipp                      3.6.0                    pypi_0    pypi
zlib                      1.2.11               h62dcd97_4
zstd                      1.4.9                h19a0ad4_0