"ImportError: Failed to load GLFW3 shared library" without root access on Linux

Question

I'm trying to run a Python3 code found on GitHub on a remote machine that I don't have root access. The code requires to import glfw dependency .

While pip3 install --user glfw seems to work perfectly fine (exactly like all the other python dependencies), when I try to run the code I get:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/ismarou/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/glfw/init.py", line 34, in raise ImportError("Failed to load GLFW3 shared library.") ImportError: Failed to load GLFW3 shared library.

Is there anything I missed?

Answer 1

You need to install both glfw3 and python bindings for glfw3. With pip install --user glfw you installed only the bindings. Now you have to install glfw3 on your system.

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 18.04. Installation of libglfw3 and libglfw3-dev solved it.

sudo apt-get install libglfw3
sudo apt-get install libglfw3-dev

Answer 2

helped the pip3 install glfw in the same directory of the build project

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