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matplotlib fails to install under Windows on GraalPy 25.0.0 #544
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> pip install matplotlib
C:\Users\Aly\.pyenv\pyenv-win\versions\graalpy-25.0.0-windows-amd64\Lib\ssl.py:527: UserWarning: unable to enumerate Windows certificate store
warnings.warn("unable to enumerate Windows certificate store")
WARNING: Disabling truststore because platform isn't supported
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.graalvm.org/python/wheels/
Collecting matplotlib
Downloading matplotlib-3.10.6.tar.gz (34.8 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 34.8/34.8 MB 13.3 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Looking for GraalPy patches for matplotlib
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 2
╰─> [17 lines of output]
+ meson setup C:\Users\Aly\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-7p4n0793\matplotlib_37da3d368e7447a48e643f1eb3f1aa70 C:\Users\Aly\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-7p4n0793\matplotlib_37da3d368e7447a48e643f1eb3f1aa70\.mesonpy-bn__bqvo -Dbuildtype=release -Db_ndebug=if-release -Db_vscrt=md --native-file=C:\Users\Aly\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-7p4n0793\matplotlib_37da3d368e7447a48e643f1eb3f1aa70\.mesonpy-bn__bqvo\meson-python-native-file.ini
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Aly\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-069mgoq7\overlay\Lib\site-packages\mesonbuild\mesonmain.py", line 193, in run
return options.run_func(options)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Aly\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-069mgoq7\overlay\Lib\site-packages\mesonbuild\msetup.py", line 394, in run
app.generate()
File "C:\Users\Aly\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-069mgoq7\overlay\Lib\site-packages\mesonbuild\msetup.py", line 190, in generate
with mesonlib.DirectoryLock(self.build_dir, 'meson-private/meson.lock',
File "C:\Users\Aly\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-069mgoq7\overlay\Lib\site-packages\mesonbuild\utils\win32.py", line 22, in __enter__
mode = msvcrt.LK_LOCK
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'msvcrt' has no attribute 'LK_LOCK'
ERROR: Unhandled python exception
This is a Meson bug and should be reported!
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed
× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
Notably, the MSVCRT builtins file of GraalPy has a comment saying that it's only there to make Meson work.
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msimacek commentedon Sep 19, 2025
Thanks for the report, I'll add the missing constant
msimacek commentedon Sep 19, 2025
I made a PR for the msvcrt stuff, which is enough to build matplotlib. But I couldn't build kiwisolver (a runtime dependency of matplotlib). I'm going on a vacation for a few weeks, I'll look into that after I'm back
Fix msvcrt.locking
kgonia commentedon Dec 9, 2025
I created PR in kiwisolver with graalpy 25 support. If accepted wheels for windows will be available. nucleic/kiwi#205
Skip GraalPy wheels on Windows (amd64), see oracle/graalpython#544