Have a project that is written in Python 3.8.x and wxPython. It was developed on an Apple MacBookPro (Intel-based). wxPython installed via PIP inside a virtual environment without problems. Life was good.
Then I get a new Apple MacBookPro (M1 Apple Silicon / ARM) based system. Installed Python3 via Homebrew, created project space and a new virtual environment via python3 -m venv .venv. The IDE of choice is Visual Studio Code (VSCode) with the Python plugin installed.
When running the following command in VSCode with the active virtual environment .venv for the project workspace, I see errors like:
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details
What is the āuse āāhostāā referring to? The pip command when installing wxPython or some internal C compiler setting?
Here is the full error trace when running pip install -U wxPython inside the .venv environment on a Apple Silicon M1 system:
(.venv) system@local MyProjectName % pip 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/python3.8/site-packages (from wxPython) (8.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six in ./.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from wxPython) (1.16.0)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in ./.venv/lib/python3.8/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' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/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-8jjcyj2e
cwd: /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/
Complete output (260 lines):
/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/lib/python3.8/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/python3.8/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" -u build.py build
Will build using: "/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3"
3.8.9 (default, Aug 3 2021, 19:21:54)
[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-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/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
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether we are using the Intel C compiler... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
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checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking whether we are using the Intel C++ compiler... no
checking whether we are using the IBM xlC C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ supports C++11 features with -std=gnu++11... yes
checking for ar... ar
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checking if C++ compiler (g++ -std=gnu++11 -mmacosx-version-min=10.10) works with SDK/version options... yes
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checking for inline... inline
checking size of short... 2
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checking size of long long... 8
checking size of wchar_t... 4
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checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for __sync_fetch_and_add and __sync_sub_and_fetch builtins... yes
checking for libraries directories... /usr/lib
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checking if floating point functions link without -lm... yes
checking for pkg-config... no
configure: WARNING: Defaulting to the builtin regex library for Unicode build.
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checking for zlib.h... (cached) no
configure: WARNING: zlib library not found or too old, will use built-in instead
checking whether zlib.h file exists... yes
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checking for png.h... (cached) no
configure: WARNING: system png library not found or too old, will use built-in instead
checking whether png.c file exists... yes
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configure: WARNING: system jpeg library not found, will use built-in instead
checking whether jpeglib.h file exists... yes
checking lzma.h usability... no
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checking for jbg_dec_init in -ljbig... no
checking for LIBTIFF... not found via pkg-config
checking for tiffio.h... no
configure: WARNING: system tiff library not found, will use built-in instead
checking whether tiff.h file exists... yes
checking for expat.h... yes
checking if expat.h is valid C++ header... yes
checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes
checking for X11/Xlib.h... no
checking for X11/XKBlib.h... no
checking if the linker accepts --version-script... no
checking for symbols visibility support... yes
checking for broken libstdc++ visibility... no
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checking for off_t... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
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checking if wchar_t is separate type... yes
checking for pw_gecos in struct passwd... yes
checking for wcslen... yes
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checking for mbstate_t... yes
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checking if vsnprintf declaration is broken... no
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checking if snprintf supports positional arguments... yes
checking for vsscanf declaration... yes
checking if vsscanf() declaration is broken... no
checking for putws... no
checking for fputws... yes
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checking for vswscanf... yes
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checking for fsync... yes
checking for round... yes
checking for iconv... yes
checking if iconv needs const... no
checking for sigaction... yes
checking for sa_handler type... int
checking for backtrace()... yes
checking for library containing backtrace... none required
checking for __cxa_demangle() in <cxxabi.h>... yes
checking for mkstemp... yes
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checking for statfs declaration... yes
checking for fcntl... yes
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checking for uname... yes
checking for strtok_r... yes
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checking for inet_aton... yes
checking for fdopen... yes
checking for sysconf... yes
checking for getpwuid_r... yes
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checking for the pthreads library -lpthread... yes
checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no
checking for pthread_setconcurrency... yes
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checking for sched_yield... yes
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checking for pthread_attr_setschedparam... yes
checking for sched_get_priority_max... yes
checking for pthread_cancel... yes
checking for pthread_mutex_timedlock... no
configure: WARNING: wxMutex::LockTimeout() will not work
checking for pthread_attr_setstacksize... yes
checking for pthread_mutexattr_t... yes
checking for pthread_mutexattr_settype declaration... yes
checking for abi::__forced_unwind() in <cxxabi.h>... no
checking for localtime_r... yes
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checking how many arguments gethostbyname_r() takes... can't tell
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking how many arguments getservbyname_r() takes... no
checking for getservbyname... yes
checking for dlopen... yes
checking for dladdr... yes
checking whether inotify is usable... no
checking for sys/event.h... yes
checking for SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED in sys/soundcard.h... no
checking xlocale.h usability... yes
checking xlocale.h presence... yes
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checking for locale_t... yes
checking for sys/epoll.h... no
configure: WARNING: sys/epoll.h not available, wxEpollDispatcher disabled
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking whether gettimeofday takes two arguments... yes
checking for timezone variable in <time.h>... timezone
checking for localtime... yes
checking for tm_gmtoff in struct tm... yes
checking for _NL_TIME_FIRST_WEEKDAY in langinfo.h... no
checking for setpriority... yes
checking for socket... yes
checking what is the type of the third argument of getsockname... socklen_t
checking what is the type of the fifth argument of getsockopt... socklen_t
configure: WARNING: Dialup manager not supported on this platform... disabled
checking for python... /Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3
checking if AVKit is available... yes
checking CXXWARNINGS for gcc -Woverloaded-virtual... -Woverloaded-virtual
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for ar... (cached) ar
checking for strip... strip
checking for nm... nm
checking if make is GNU make... yes
checking for gcc 3.1 or later... yes
checking for dependency tracking method... gcc
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking whether catch.hpp file exists... yes
=== configuring in src/tiff (/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/build/wxbld/src/tiff)
configure: running /bin/sh /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/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-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/ext/wxWidgets/src/tiff' --cache-file=
checking build system type... arm-apple-darwin21.1.0
checking host system type... arm-apple-darwin21.1.0
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/ext/wxWidgets/src/tiff/config/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
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checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking how to create a pax tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.10
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/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-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/ext/wxWidgets/src/tiff/configure failed for src/tiff
Error running configure
ERROR: failed building wxWidgets
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "build.py", line 1510, in cmd_build_wx
wxbuild.main(wxDir(), build_options)
File "/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/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-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 85, in exitIfError
raise builder.BuildError(msg)
buildtools.builder.BuildError: Error running configure
Finished command: build_wx (0m23.44s)
Finished command: build (0m23.44s)
Command '"/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3" -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
Installing collected packages: wxPython
Running setup.py install for wxPython ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: '/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/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'"'"'))' install --record /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-record-hu50wtrm/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers '/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/include/site/python3.8/wxPython'
cwd: /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/
Complete output (50 lines):
/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/lib/python3.8/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/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:294: DistDeprecationWarning: use_2to3 is ignored.
warnings.warn(f"{attr} is ignored.", DistDeprecationWarning)
running install
/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py:34: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
warnings.warn(
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" -u build.py build
Will build using: "/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3"
3.8.9 (default, Aug 3 2021, 19:21:54)
[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-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/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
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/build/wxbld':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details
Error running configure
ERROR: failed building wxWidgets
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "build.py", line 1510, in cmd_build_wx
wxbuild.main(wxDir(), build_options)
File "/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/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-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 85, in exitIfError
raise builder.BuildError(msg)
buildtools.builder.BuildError: Error running configure
Finished command: build_wx (0m5.814s)
Finished command: build (0m5.814s)
Command '"/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3" -u build.py build' failed with exit code 1.
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: '/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/bin/python3' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-install-jm73uoks/wxpython_2050e380cbcf449482f47c041513b558/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'"'"'))' install --record /private/var/folders/n_/9br5lnpx1r3bd6p_k4v5s1v40000gn/T/pip-record-hu50wtrm/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers '/Users/Dev/Projects/MyProjectName/.venv/include/site/python3.8/wxPython' Check the logs for full command output.
I am stuck and all my reading on the wxPython webpage, didnāt really point me to any solutions.
My questions are:
- Are these errors the result of wxPython 4.1.1 not compatible with Apple Silicon M1 platforms? Is anyone successfully running wxPython within a .venv setup?
- Are these errors the result of missing librarys that I need to install via Homebrew on the host itself, outside the .venv?
- Are these errors the result of missing python extensions within the .venv that wxPython requires to compile/build?
