Error attempting to install win32gui

C:\Users\Olive\OneDrive\Documents>pip3 install win32gui
Collecting win32gui
  Using cached win32gui-221.5.tar.gz (605 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [19 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Users\Olive\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "C:\Users\Olive\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
        File "C:\Users\Olive\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "C:\Users\Olive\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-fubuezl3\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 332, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
        File "C:\Users\Olive\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-fubuezl3\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 302, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "C:\Users\Olive\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-fubuezl3\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 503, in run_setup
          super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
        File "C:\Users\Olive\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-fubuezl3\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 318, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 27, in <module>
        File "C:\Users\Olive\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-038e5f66\win32gui_0fe13498a57e40cea9d8a7e81904bf58\win32\distutils\gui.py", line 6, in <module>
          from .command import win32_build_ext
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'win32.distutils.command'
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

Don’t really know what I’m doing, tried updating pip like some other forum said but no change

It’s downloading the source code for win32gui and trying to compile it, but it can’t find the compiler.

Installing pywin32 will give you win32gui.