Windows¶
Install System Libraries¶
Make sure you have Python 3 for Windows installed first:
https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
Install ffmpeg:
https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows
Install sox:
http://sox.sourceforge.net/Main/HomePage
Install a latex distribution. On Windows MikTex is commonly used:
Path configuration¶
To invoke commandline without supplying path to the binary the PATH environment needs to be configured. Below are template examples, please change the path according to your username and specific python version. Assuming all the softwares are installed with no alteration to the installation paths:
C:\Users\$username\AppData\local\Programs\Python\Python$version\
C:\Users\$username\AppData\local\Programs\Python\Python$version\Scripts\
C:\MikTex\miktex\bin\x64\
C:\ffmpeg\bin\
The path entries should be separated by semicolon.
Installing python packages and manim¶
Make sure you can start pip using pip in your commandline. Then do
pip install pyreadline for the readline package.
Grab the pycairo wheel binary pycairo‑1.18.0‑cp37‑cp37m‑win32.whl from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pycairo
and install it via python -m pip install C:\absolute\path\to\the\whl\file
clone the manim repository if you have git git clone https://github.com/3b1b/manim or download the zip file from
the repository page with Clone or download button and unzip it.
Open the commandline within the manim directory with Shift + Right click on an empty space in the folder and select open command window here
Install manim python dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
Test the installation¶
Type in python -m manim -h and if nothing went wrong during the installation process you should see the help text.
Use python -m manim example_scenes.py SquareToCircle -pl to render the example scene and the file should play after rendering. The movie file should be
in media/videos/example_scenes/480p15