pip install openbabel failing in windows

[X265065]

I am getting below error while installing openbabel using pip. please help.

C:\Users\X265065>pip install openbabel

WARNING: Skipping C:\Users\X265065\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pillow-10.2.0.dist-info due to invalid metadata entry 'name'
WARNING: Skipping C:\Users\X265065\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pillow-10.2.0.dist-info due to invalid metadata entry 'name'
Collecting openbabel
Using cached openbabel-3.1.1.1.tar.gz (82 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: openbabel
Building wheel for openbabel (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [17 lines of output]
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_ext
Warning: invalid version number '3.1.1.1'.
Guessing Open Babel location:
- include_dirs: ['C:\Program Files\Python311\include', 'C:\Program Files\Python311\Include', '/usr/local/include/openbabel3']
- library_dirs: ['C:\Program Files\Python311\libs', 'C:\Program Files\Python311', 'C:\Program Files\Python311\PCbuild\amd64', '/usr/local/lib']
building 'openbabel._openbabel' extension
swigging openbabel\openbabel-python.i to openbabel\openbabel-python_wrap.cpp
swig.exe -python -c++ -small -O -templatereduce -naturalvar "-IC:\Program Files\Python311\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Python311\Include" -I/usr/local/include/openbabel3 -o openbabel\openbabel-python_wrap.cpp openbabel\openbabel-python.i
openbabel\openbabel-python.i(246) : Error: Unable to find 'openbabel\babelconfig.h'
C:\Program Files\Python311\include\openbabel\typer.h(66) : Error: CPP #error "OB_EXTERN". Use the -cpperraswarn option to continue swig processing.

  Error: SWIG failed. Is Open Babel installed?
  You may need to manually specify the location of Open Babel include and library directories. For example:
    python setup.py build_ext -I/usr/local/include/openbabel3 -L/usr/local/lib
    python setup.py install
  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for openbabel
Running setup.py clean for openbabel
Failed to build openbabel
ERROR: Could not build wheels for openbabel, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
WARNING: Skipping C:\Users\X265065\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pillow-10.2.0.dist-info due to invalid metadata entry 'name'
WARNING: Skipping C:\Users\X265065\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pillow-10.2.0.dist-info due to invalid metadata entry 'name'
WARNING: Skipping C:\Users\X265065\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\pillow-10.2.0.dist-info due to invalid metadata entry 'name'

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[nbehrnd]

Option a) bypass with openbabel-wheels, or option b) conda. See for instance a comment I added yesterday to #2408.