Pip install with `--platform` showing ERROR

[goyalyashpal]

$ pip install --target ./ --only-binary=:all: --no-binary=:none: --platform ./ icdiff
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement icdiff (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for icdiff

$ pip help install | less
  --platform <platform>       Only use wheels compatible with <platform>.
                              Defaults to the platform of the running system.
                              Use this option multiple times to specify
                              multiple platforms supported by the target
                              interpreter.

$ pip install --platform icdiff
ERROR: When restricting platform and interpreter constraints using --python-version, --platform, --abi, 
or --implementation, either --no-deps must be set, or --only-binary=:all: must be set and --no-binary 
must not be set (or must be set to :none:).

$ pip install --only-binary=:all: --no-binary=:none: --platform icdiff
ERROR: Can not use any platform or abi specific options unless installing via '--target'

Platform: Windows 10 with msys2 bash, with python via installer from python.org

[jeffkaufman]

Does pip install icdiff not work for you?

(There aren't any binary components in icdiff; it's pure python.)

[goyalyashpal]

i will come back to this later 😅