Windows Python311 Install Failing due to lack of Wheel

[mkmoisen]

Description

pip install confluent_kafka on Windows with Python 3.11.1 is failing to compile, presumably because no wheel has been build yet for Python 3.11 on Windows.

C:\Users\foo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-yp62n49s\confluent-kafka_4bbf826983d84843b371f5b77cac6607\src\confluent_kafka\src\confluent_kafka.h(23): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'librdkafka/rdkafka.h': No such file or directory

Please check here for an old discussion about this on python3.8.

How to reproduce

Run pip install confluent_kafka in Windows under Python 3.11.

Checklist

Please provide the following information:

• confluent-kafka-python and librdkafka version (confluent_kafka.version() and confluent_kafka.libversion()):
• Apache Kafka broker version:
• Client configuration: {...}
• [x ] Operating system: Windowx
• Provide client logs (with 'debug': '..' as necessary)
• Provide broker log excerpts
• Critical issue

[pranavrth]

We have plans to release 3.11 wheel with the next release. The issue related to this already being tracked here - #1452.