error installing RPi.GPIO on Python

Question

I am trying this out for the first time with not much success I recently bought latest Raspberry PI 3 B+

I am trying to install RPi.GPIO via python 3.7 on my windows 10 machine.

I have successfully downloaded RPi.GPIO-0.6.3

when I run the install in the command window with 'pip install RPi.GPIO' its starts, and looks like it has been successful, but the process has errors! the first one being 'Failed building wheel for RPi.GPIO' It then indicates an error running 'setup.py install for RPi.GPIO'

Lastly it then says that Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required .

Any ideas of what has gone wrong and how can i fix this?

• joan: What are you trying to do? What is your end goal?
• tashmobird: I am wanting to learn Python, and be able to control the GPIO pins on the Raspberry PI, just to do basic things at first like turning LED's on and off, but I havent got the environment setup correctly as I get numerous errors, (when I try to import the module in IDLE I get:- 'import PRi.GPIO as GPIO ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PRi' i thought RPi.GPIO' was for python but I am mistaken- and I somehow need to run that on the Raspberry PI instead..? im still trying to figure out how to do that
• joan: Was that a typo? You need to be on the Pi and the command is import RPi.GPIO as GPIO. Note that letter case is important and needs to be correct.
• tashmobird: yes sorry was Typo, I did mean 'import RPi.GPIO...thanks again for all your usefull feedback!
• Dmitry Grigoryev: What do you expect to achieve by installing an RPi library on Windows 10?

Answer 1

The RPi.GPIO Python module only works on a Raspberry Pi. It accesses the Raspberry Pi's GPIO and expects to be running under a Linux environment.

• tashmobird: Thanks for your quick response, i can confrim that I do have a Raspberyy PI. so am I actually doing something wrong, is the problem that I am running this in the cmd window of my windows machine? should I be running this somewhere else, i.e. some environment on my Raspberry PI? if so where is it & what is it called? sorry I am completely new to this
• joan: Yes. To work the RPi.GPIO module requires 1) to be running on a Raspberry Pi, 2) to be running under the Linux operating system.
• joan: You could use putty (I think that is the name) to access a command window running on the Pi from your Windows PC. That may be what you want to do.
• joan: Also see raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access