Installing tensorflow object detection API on Windows 11, stuck on installation of pycocotools

Question

I'm installing tensorflow object detection API on Windows 11, however I'm stuck on the installation of pycocotools.

Screenshot of error message I'm following the tutorial on https://tensorflow-object-detection-api-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html#tensorflow-installation however I keep getting errors.

The command that is giving me errors is pip install git+https://github.com/philferriere/cocoapi.git#subdirectory=PythonAPI

Please check the link it has a screenshot of the errors

Answer 1

It seems like the basetsd.h file is missing. Try to download and install Windows 11 SDK from here . If you have it installed already, check if windows SDK and the Microsoft Visual C++ are added to system PATH, if not adding them to system PATH will help.

As you already have Visual Studio compiler, you will need to install only Developer Tools > Windows Headers and Libraries , which includes missing basetsd.h . Thanks!