Build fails on Windows

[RPINerd]

PS C:\Users\xxx> pip install pysam
Collecting pysam
  Using cached pysam-0.22.1.tar.gz (4.6 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [60 lines of output]
      # pysam: cython is available - using cythonize if necessary
      # pysam: htslib mode is shared
      # pysam: HTSLIB_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS=None
      '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
      operable program or batch file.
      '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
      operable program or batch file.
      # pysam: htslib configure options: None
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "c:\Users\xxx\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
          ~~~~^^
        File "c:\Users\xxx\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "c:\Users\xxx\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-gm8ys3kc\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 
334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-gm8ys3kc\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 
304, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
        File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-gm8ys3kc\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 
522, in run_setup
          super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-gm8ys3kc\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 
320, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
          ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<string>", line 437, in <module>
        File "<string>", line 81, in run_make_print_config
        File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\subprocess.py", line 472, in check_output
          return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
                 ~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                     **kwargs).stdout
                     ^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\subprocess.py", line 554, in run
          with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
               ~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1036, in __init__
          self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                              pass_fds, cwd, env,
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
          ...<5 lines>...
                              gid, gids, uid, umask,
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                              start_new_session, process_group)
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1548, in _execute_child
          hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                   # no special security
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
          ...<4 lines>...
                                   cwd,
                                   ^^^^
                                   startupinfo)
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
      FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
      [end of output]

[jmarshall]

Pysam does not currently support Windows.

See PR #1274 for efforts towards adding support for this platform.

[RPINerd]

I'd rather just not use windows hah, but large companies are hard to change. Thanks for the quick response!