portaudio.h: No such file or directory

[EdSeymore]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1413]

WSL Version

WSL version: 1.1.3.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

Linux version 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

Distro Version

Release: 22.04

Other Software

miniconda conda 23.3.1
pip3 pip 23.0.1
PyAudio

Repro Steps

pip3 install PyAudio

• fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory

Expected Behavior

normal PyAudio install as under native Ubuntu 22.04

Actual Behavior

fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory

Diagnostic Logs

No response

[Biswa96]

The issue is not related to WSL. Please report any on-topic issues.

The portaudio.h file is provided by portaudio19-dev package. The file list of that package can be found here https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/amd64/portaudio19-dev/filelist.

[EdSeymore]

It is my understanding that portaudio is provied by standard Ubuntu package and that WSL supplies a non standerd Ubuntu for the WSL support. The files referenced are not present in my Ubuntu 22.04 image under WSL2 with Windows 11.

[Biswa96]

The portaudio19-dev has to be installed to get that portaudio.h file.

[elsaco]

@EdSeymore you need to add the portaudio19-dev package. This package contains the development files and not installed by default. apt install portaudio19-dev should take care of it.

[EdSeymore]

Thanks. Now Successfully installed PyAudio-0.2.13.

[EdSeymore]

Now I am getting a stream of messages from ALSA lib:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5701:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault
ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5701:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
and many more:

This may not be an WSL2 problem; but, I am trying really hard to use WSL2 with Ubuntu in place of a separate Ubuntu system and the complexity of the Operating Systems is making this really difficult.

End users should not have this much trouble setting up a working environment to run python applications. Trying to debug configuration problems with web search has not been productive for me.

I really have no idea how Windows and Ubuntu share devices on a single system and very little desire to know. I just would like for supportted systems to actually work when installed.

WSL2 just happens to be a key component.

Has anyone gotten PyAudio to work on Ubuntu 22.04 with Windows 11 and WSL2 without the ALSA lib messages?

Suggestions would be appreciated.

[EdSeymore]

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71945812/audio-recording-script-not-working-on-wsl2-ubuntu

[EdSeymore]

The python3 code to illistrate this conditions is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

-- coding: utf-8 --

import pyaudio
import wave
import sys
CHUNK = 1024
file_path = "audio.wav"
wf = wave.open(file_path, 'rb') # Modified ets 01/31/2023
t_audio =wf.getnframes() / wf.getframerate()
p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
stream = p.open(format=p.get_format_from_width(wf.getsampwidth()),
channels=wf.getnchannels(),
rate=wf.getframerate(),
output=True)
while len(data := wf.readframes(CHUNK)):
stream.write(data)
stream.close()
p.terminate()
wf.close()

[gml16]

I am having the same issue. Has there been any update regarding this please?

[Jeronymous]

At the time being, has anyone succeeded to have pyaudio working in WSL2?

[pranav-manik]

^^

[NateOs]

I am dealing with this same pyaudio situation... I have tried, installing portaudio, wheels, through pip, apt etc none of the workarounds I have found so far have worked for me

[acelinkio]

I got it to work on wsl-nixos by doing setting hardware.pulseaudio.enable = true

so it is possible but unsure what it would look like for other distros

[NateOs]

I got it to work on wsl-nixos by doing setting hardware.pulseaudio.enable = true

so it is possible but unsure what it would look like for other distros

didn't work for me on 2204 tho

[NateOs]

fixed it again on another wsl of mine, if you having the same pyaudio installation issue, the below instruction should help, especially, FIRSTLY installing portaudio and python3-dev, this additional detail is from the pypi guidelines for pyaudio

Use the package manager to install PyAudio. For example, on Debian-based systems:

sudo apt install python3-pyaudio
Alternatively, if the latest version of PyAudio is not available, install it using pip. Be sure to first install development libraries for portaudio19 and python3.

One more thing, I got ALSA errors when I tried to play sound in my app after fixing the pyaudio install...

installing pulseaudio on wsl however fixed that problem...

[Deltaidiots]

Now I am getting a stream of messages from ALSA lib:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:5701:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM sysdefault ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:5701:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory and many more:

This may not be an WSL2 problem; but, I am trying really hard to use WSL2 with Ubuntu in place of a separate Ubuntu system and the complexity of the Operating Systems is making this really difficult.

End users should not have this much trouble setting up a working environment to run python applications. Trying to debug configuration problems with web search has not been productive for me.

I really have no idea how Windows and Ubuntu share devices on a single system and very little desire to know. I just would like for supportted systems to actually work when installed.

WSL2 just happens to be a key component.

Has anyone gotten PyAudio to work on Ubuntu 22.04 with Windows 11 and WSL2 without the ALSA lib messages?

Suggestions would be appreciated.

Any solutions to this yet?