Failed building wheel for wxPython (MacOS 12.0.1)

wxPython Dev
#1

Attempts to install wxPython 4.1.1 inside a active Python 3.9.9 virtual environment on MacOS 12.0.1 Monterey is failing with the error:

ERROR: Failed building wheel for wxPython

The following pip modules are installed:

  • pip 21.3.1
  • setuptools 59.0.1
  • wheel 0.37.0

Are there any minimal compiler requirements needed for MacOS when installing wxPython?

The full error trace is here:

(.venv) system@local MyProjectName % pip3 install -U wxPython
Collecting wxPython
  Using cached wxPython-4.1.1.tar.gz (66.0 MB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: pillow in ./.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from wxPython) (8.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six in ./.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from wxPython) (1.16.0)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in ./.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from wxPython) (1.21.4)
Building wheels for collected packages: wxPython
  Building wheel for wxPython (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: '/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3.9' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-wheel-dffxjqym
       cwd: /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/
  Complete output (261 lines):
  /Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:717: UserWarning: Usage of dash-separated 'license-file' will not be supported in future versions. Please use the underscore name 'license_file' instead
    warnings.warn(
  /Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:294: DistDeprecationWarning: use_2to3 is ignored.
    warnings.warn(f"{attr} is ignored.", DistDeprecationWarning)
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  WARNING: Building this way assumes that all generated files have been
  generated already.  If that is not the case then use build.py directly
  to generate the source and perform the build stage.  You can use
  --skip-build with the bdist_* or install commands to avoid this
  message and the wxWidgets and Phoenix build steps in the future.
  
  "/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3.9" -u build.py build
  Will build using: "/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3.9"
  3.9.9 (main, Nov 21 2021, 03:16:13)
  [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3)]
  Python's architecture is 64bit
  cfg.VERSION: 4.1.1
  
  Running command: build
  Running command: build_wx
  wxWidgets build options: ['--wxpython', '--unicode', '--osx_cocoa']
  Configure options: ['--enable-unicode', '--with-osx_cocoa', '--enable-sound', '--enable-graphics_ctx', '--enable-display', '--enable-geometry', '--enable-debug_flag', '--enable-optimise', '--disable-debugreport', '--enable-uiactionsim', '--enable-autoidman', '--with-macosx-version-min=10.10']
  /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/ext/wxWidgets/configure --enable-unicode --with-osx_cocoa --enable-sound --enable-graphics_ctx --enable-display --enable-geometry --enable-debug_flag --enable-optimise --disable-debugreport --enable-uiactionsim --enable-autoidman --with-macosx-version-min=10.10
  checking build system type... arm-apple-darwin21.1.0
  checking host system type... arm-apple-darwin21.1.0
  checking for toolkit... osx_cocoa
  checking for gcc... gcc
  checking whether the C compiler works... yes
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  configure: WARNING: system png library not found or too old, will use built-in instead
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  configure: WARNING: wxMutex::LockTimeout() will not work
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  configure: WARNING: sys/epoll.h not available, wxEpollDispatcher disabled
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  === configuring in src/tiff (/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/build/wxbld/src/tiff)
  configure: running /bin/sh /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/ext/wxWidgets/src/tiff/configure '--prefix=/usr/local' --disable-option-checking  '--enable-unicode' '--with-osx_cocoa' '--enable-sound' '--enable-graphics_ctx' '--enable-display' '--enable-geometry' '--enable-debug_flag' '--enable-optimise' '--disable-debugreport' '--enable-uiactionsim' '--enable-autoidman' '--with-macosx-version-min=10.10' '--disable-jbig' '--disable-webp' '--disable-zstd' '--disable-lzma' '--enable-jpeg' '--srcdir=/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/ext/wxWidgets/src/tiff' --cache-file=
  checking build system type... arm-apple-darwin21.1.0
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  checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/build/wxbld/src/tiff':
  configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
  If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
  See `config.log' for more details
  configure: error: /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/ext/wxWidgets/src/tiff/configure failed for src/tiff
  Error running configure
  ERROR: failed building wxWidgets
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/build.py", line 1510, in cmd_build_wx
      wxbuild.main(wxDir(), build_options)
    File "/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 372, in main
      exitIfError(wxBuilder.configure(dir=wxRootDir, options=configure_opts),
    File "/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-po537wqg/wxpython_412cc0ff52124d67bbc1dcd53926b02c/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 85, in exitIfError
      raise builder.BuildError(msg)
  buildtools.builder.BuildError: Error running configure
  Finished command: build_wx (0m23.434s)
  Finished command: build (0m23.434s)
  Command '"/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3.9" -u build.py build' failed with exit code 1.
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for wxPython
  Running setup.py clean for wxPython
Failed to build wxPython
#2

I have this same issue

#3

me too; building this

#4

There are not any universal or arm64 builds on PyPI yet. Also, there were incompatible changes made in newer MacOS SDKs that caused problems in the wxWidgets code used up to what we used for 4.1.1. So to do builds on newer SDKs we need a newer version of wxWidgets, and therefore a newer wxPython as well. You can get pre-release build for MacOS universal architectures from the snapshot builds, like this:

pip install --pre -f https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds wxPython

However it looks like there is some issue with the newest wheel binaries there currently. I’ll work on fixing that, but in the meantime you can probably build a wheel using one of the source archives from the snapshot-builds folder. Something like this:

$ VERSION=4.1.2a1.dev5412+727f3aff

# Get the source archive
$ wget https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/wxPython-$VERSION.tar.gz

# Pull out the requirements files and install the listed packages into the 
# current Python venv
$ tar xzvf wxPython-$VERSION.tar.gz wxPython-$VERSION/requirements
$ pip install -U -r wxPython-$VERSION/requirements/devel.txt

# Now build a wheel file
$ pip wheel wxPython-$VERSION.tar.gz

Once you have that wheel file you can install it using pip in the venv or in other venvs.

wxPython 4.1.2 snapshot on Apple M1 Silicon error (PyInit_core)
wxPython not installing via PIP on Apple Silicon M1 Max
#5

Wow!!! this worked like a champ

#6

This version is not existing anymore at that link. Which version should be used to install on MacOS 12.4?

#7

Look in the snapshot-builds folder and find the newest version.

#8

@Robin Thanks very much for this.
Also works on Windows
eg set VERSION=-4.1.2a1.dev5417+85aea3fd then replace $VERSION with %VERSION% in subsequent commands
works fine for -4.1.2a1.dev5417+85aea3fd
but not for
4.2.0a1.dev5449+3ac1e526
bw
john

#9

Any timetable yet for a non daily build of 4.2?

#10

Today. Or yesterday actually, I just finished building, uploading, announcing, etc. today.

#11

hi Robin,

I am actually on MacOS13.2 (a) Beta and wxpython has difficulties to finalize.
"“Building wheels for collected packages: wxPython
Building wheel for wxPython (setup.py) … “””

is there any higher version planned?

your guidance will be nice.
thanks

#12

@air_Kemal I can verify that the current GitHub master branch (a3b6cfec77fcdcad) builds, installs, runs, and builds wheels for me on macOS 13.1 (latest release) with Python 3.9 and 3.10 (both from Anaconda Python).