Hello.

This happens when "long paths" are not enabled on Windows. 

1. Exit PyCharm.
2. Enable long paths. There are multiple ways to do it (Google...). One of them - the one I used when I now reproduced your problem - was:  www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles...AX-PATH-is-256-characters.html .
3. Start PyCharm and retry.

I hope this helps.
Best regards
 

I am using PyCharm, but underlying python is 3.13 and pip is 25.0.1.  I have also tried running PIP directly from CMD window.   If it matters, the initial error message is:

---

  × Building wheel for opclabs-quickopc (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [1317 lines of output]
      C:\Users\steve\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-x54tmbcl\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:485: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: Please provide a valid glob pattern.
      !!

              ********************************************************************************
              Pattern 'opclabs_quickopc\\OpcLabs.QuickOpc\\*.htm' contains invalid characters.

              By 2026-Mar-20, you need to update your project and remove deprecated calls
              or your builds will no longer be supported.

              See packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/glob-patterns/ for details.
              ********************************************************************************

      !!
        for path in sorted(cls._find_pattern(pattern, enforce_match))
      C:\Users\steve\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-x54tmbcl\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py:485: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: Please provide a valid glob pattern.
      !!

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I have tried on multiple computers, multiple Administrator accounts, and still always the same result.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.
 

Hello.
Which version of pip, and which version of Python are you running?

I could not reproduce the issue. I tested with pip 25.0.1, and Python 3.13.3.

Best regards
 

When I type pip install opclabs_quickopc in the terminal of PyCharm, I get the message "ERROR: Failed building wheel for opclabs_quickopc".  This message is preceded by a large number of messages like this:

('C:\\Users\\steve\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-modern-metadata-1dihd12h\\opclabs_quickopc-5.82.175.dist-info\\licenses\\opclabs_quickopc\\OpcLabs.QuickOpc\\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData_6.0.
0.html', 'build\\bdist.win-amd64\\wheel\\opclabs_quickopc-5.82.175.dist-info\\licenses\\opclabs_quickopc\\OpcLabs.QuickOpc\\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData_6.0.0.html', '[WinError 3] The system ca
nnot find the path specified')

Any ideas?