I am looking to make a small test app that uses python, pygobject, kivy, and gstreamer on windows 11.
Because of pygobject, I have to use a mingw64 terminal since it does not work directly on windows 11 or with a python version greater than 3.4 (using a sourceforge installer).
In mingw64, I've been facing the issue of not being able to install kivy due to No matching distribution found for kivy_deps.gstreamer_dev~=0.3.3
I've looked at this thread and tried the proposed solutions of using "the latest cutting edge Nightly wheels" with:
python -m pip install kivy --pre --no-deps --index-url https://kivy.org/downloads/simple/
python -m pip install "kivy[base]" --pre --extra-index-url https://kivy.org/downloads/simple/
However this gave the same error.
I also tried to download version 3.10 of mingw-w64-x86_64-python, with pacman and a zst folder, installed pip with python -m ensurepip and was still getting the same error with Kivy. I don't like this route because I will also have to build all my python packages due to the nature of mingw64's packages with pacman.
How can I get this setup to work? Is there a way to not install the gstreamer dependency for kivy since it is optional according to their documentation? Is there something I'm missing?
Kivy for Python 3.5+ on Windows only supports the MSVC compiler, and you can't mix mingw64 gcc Python with the python.org Windows version of Python compiled with MSVC.
Gvsbuild supports building GTK with PyGObject and Gstreamer with MSVC. You could then install Kivy normally, since all your dependencies would be built with MSVC.