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  1. install zbar on windows with include and library files

  2. make sure mingw installed and bin directory added to the path

  3. in PYTHONPATH\Lib\distutils, create a file distutils.cfg and add two lines:

    [build]

    compiler=mingw32

  4. get dll lib and include file from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest copy files to PATH_MINGW32/[lib,bin,include] separately, just need file name like pthreadGC2 and remember to chang the name to libpthread

  5. change or add lines in setup.py:

    extra_compile_args=['-std=c99', '-IPATH_TO\ZBar\include', '-lPATH_TO\ZBar\lib'],

    extra_link_args=["PATH_TO\ZBar\lib\libzbar.dll.a"],

    remove line libraries=['zbar'],

  6. run python setup.py install

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ruvi-d commented Nov 12, 2020

I got a working solution described here: https://medium.com/@ruvi.d/getting-zbarlight-to-work-on-windows-a3dc643dba18

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@ruvi-d I created a whl file, then ran pip install zbarlight-3.1.dev0-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl, but when I add import zbarlight I get an error - ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _zbarlight: The specified module could not be found.

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