Blender installation does not work on Windows dus to inability to locate DLLs

[tomvanmele]

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[tomvanmele]

the following worked on my windows laptop... using the normal command line (not anaconda prompt) with admin privileges

1. (this is just for convenience) add Blender python\bin to the PATH
2. make sure there are no other Pythons on the PATH (where python)
3. python -m ensurepip
4. python -m pip install --upgrade pip
5. python -m pip install compas

[tomvanmele]

@Licini could you try this on your machine?

[tomvanmele]

this might also be related https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/11994

[gonzalocasas]

Is it really needed to include ensurepip and --upgrade pip? Since Blender ships with a decently updated python, isn't it irrelevant and perhaps even negative to force an update?

[tomvanmele]

no, but running this now again on a fresh windows installation, i had to even modify the prefix to make sure windows doesn't keep adding stuff to the roaming profile.

cd "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 2.93\2.93\python"
.\bin\python.exe -m pip install compas --prefix="." --force-reinstall

[jf---]

Since Blender ships with a decently updated python, isn't it irrelevant and perhaps even negative to force an update?

+1

@gonzalocasas lets keep weeding the tracker ;)

[tomvanmele]

see https://compas.dev/compas/latest/userguide/cad.blender.html