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Question

I\'m getting what seems to be a common error running the Kivy hello world program. I\'ve tried the solutions I\'ve seen here: manually install gstreamer, adding

Answer 1

I'm using windows 10 and python 3.6, and I installed kivy using pip. None of above solution helped, but then I uninstall the kivy with pip, and install kivy again with conda according to https://kivy.org/doc/stable/installation/installation-windows.html#installation and it worked.

The packages conda installed for me are: The following packages will be downloaded:

package                    |            build
---------------------------|-----------------
freetype-2.8.1             |           vc14_0         469 KB  conda-forge
sdl2_mixer-2.0.4           |       h6538335_0          83 KB  conda-forge
sdl2-2.0.10                |       h6538335_0         4.3 MB  conda-forge
kivy-1.11.1                |   py36hbc14df2_0        20.2 MB  conda-forge
sdl2_image-2.0.2           |                0         293 KB  conda-forge
glew-2.0.0                 |    he025d50_1002         722 KB  conda-forge
sdl2_ttf-2.0.14            |       h8909db8_1          25 KB  conda-forge
smpeg2-2.0.0               |       h6538335_1         131 KB  conda-forge
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Answer 2

In cmd go to python34 and then to Scripts and install the following:

pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
pip install docutils pygments pypiwin32 kivy.deps.sdl2 kivy.deps.glew
pip install kivy.deps.gstreamer
pip install kivy.deps.angle
pip install kivy

Answer 3

I just found a quick fix

1. Once you have installed Kivy using pip
2. navigate to C:\Users\(accountname)\.kivy\ and open the config.ini file
3. change the multisamples = 0 from = 2 then restart your computer. This will save other issues too like

[CRITICAL] [GL ] Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!

This worked for me on windows 7 64 bit, python3.5(32 bit) with Kivy version 1.10.0

Answer 4

Disable the 3D acceleration and the 2D video acceleration in the display settings of the virtual software (aka vmbox, vmware). I think this will work for you , it works for me after lots of tries.

Answer 5

Try putting <python dir>\share\sdl2\bin to your path, it should do the trick. The thing is that it can't find the sdl2 binary it works with. There probably even isn't any PIL window provider, so using environment variable won't do a thing for creating a window (it'll be used as an image provider though).

I'm not really familiar with PySDL2, so I can't help you with that, however I made an installer for Kivy on Windows to make things easier for beginners.

There are basically two ways you'll end up with anyway:

1. You'll put the bin folders to a PATH variable permanently

   I consider it really stupid unless you're sure you won't delete Python or the folder, otherwise you'll have a ghost folder in PATH + all other programs will have an access to files in bin folders via PATH

2. You'll have a batch file that does that temporarily

   Only programs ran from the console/batch will have an access to the bin folder.

The installer does that for you and in fact does even installing from scratch (no Python) or many other things.

In case you haven't installed the Kivy dependencies, please do it first.

Answer 6

Not sure about Windows or Linux, but on python-for-android at the very top you need to put:

#qpy:kivy
import kivy
kivy.require('1.10.1') # replace with your current kivy version !