Please help a French - stuck at installation

[Slinfair]

Bonjour !
First thanks for this amazing piece of work, sincerely. And your Youtube video is compelling and inspiring !
Unfortunately i am not well versed yet in Python or even executing commands in the cmd ... but I would love to "play" with what you created and learn while doing so.

What I have managed to do :
install Python 3.11
use GitHub desktop to clone your directory (screenshot below)
downloaded and paste PokemonRed.gb into the general directory
change my CWD in python screen to "C:\Users\Roche\Documents\GitHub\PokemonRedExperiments\baselines"

but when trying the command pip install -r requirements.txt, I get below error.

It would be amazing if you could spare the time to help me set up

Warm regards,

N

[PWhiddy]

Hello!
It looks like the issue is that your command window is already running the python interpreter, while you actually want to run them just in a regular command prompt.

Below is a full guide for windows setup made by members in the discord.
Feel free to ask for help there as well if you get stuck!

Windows Guide:

1.) Python, https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.6/python-3.11.6-amd64.exe
2.) Install it, make sure "Add Python to path" is enabled

3.) Git, https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.42.0.windows.2/Git-2.42.0.2-64-bit.exe
4.) Install it
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5.) Microsoft C++ Build Tools, https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
6.) Install it
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7.) Open cmd
7.1) Browse to the path of the git, for example "cd C:\Users\YourWindowsUsername\Downloads\PokemonRedExperiments-master\baselines"
7.2) Type "pip install -r requirements.txt"
7.3) If you didn't got any warnings or red text you're good to go and use it

If you had already a version of python installed, Python 3.11.6 might not work from the above command lines, you should use the below paths for the pip command and the python command

"%localappdata%\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\pip.exe" install -r requirements.txt

"%localappdata%\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe" run_pretrained_interactive.py

"%localappdata%\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe" run_baseline_parallel_fast.py

Hope that helps!

[Slinfair]

Hi ! Helped quite a bit but still stuck with an error message in the end, would you know how to tackle it ?
I am sorry but I dont have a Discord account as of yet.

[PWhiddy]

Hi, the error is saying you need microsoft c++ build tools installed.
Did you already complete that step?
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/