Error: Failed building wheel for pyfhel

[dunglee30]

Description
I'm trying to install pyfhel on MacOS 14.6 with python 3.8.19 and get this error:

Code To Reproduce Error

Collecting pyfhel
  Using cached Pyfhel-3.4.2.tar.gz (1.0 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting numpy>=1.21 (from pyfhel)
  Using cached numpy-1.24.4-cp38-cp38-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
Using cached numpy-1.24.4-cp38-cp38-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (13.8 MB)
Building wheels for collected packages: pyfhel
  Building wheel for pyfhel (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Building wheel for pyfhel (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [102 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build
      creating build/lib.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8
      creating build/lib.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel
      copying Pyfhel/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel
      creating build/lib.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel/utils
      copying Pyfhel/utils/Scheme_t.py -> build/lib.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel/utils
      copying Pyfhel/utils/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel/utils
      copying Pyfhel/utils/utils.py -> build/lib.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel/utils
      copying Pyfhel/utils/Backend_t.py -> build/lib.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel/utils
      running build_clib
      building 'SEAL' cmake-based library
      -- Build type (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE): Release
      -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 12.4.0
      -- The C compiler identification is GNU 12.4.0
      -- Checking whether CXX compiler has -isysroot
      -- Checking whether CXX compiler has -isysroot - yes
      -- Checking whether CXX compiler supports OSX deployment target flag
      -- Checking whether CXX compiler supports OSX deployment target flag - yes
      -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
      -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
      -- Check for working CXX compiler: /opt/homebrew/bin/g++-12 - skipped
      -- Detecting CXX compile features
      -- Detecting CXX compile features - done
      -- Checking whether C compiler has -isysroot
      -- Checking whether C compiler has -isysroot - yes
      -- Checking whether C compiler supports OSX deployment target flag
      -- Checking whether C compiler supports OSX deployment target flag - yes
      -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
      -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
      -- Check for working C compiler: /opt/homebrew/bin/gcc-12 - skipped
      -- Detecting C compile features
      -- Detecting C compile features - done
      -- Microsoft SEAL debug mode: OFF
      -- SEAL_USE_CXX17: ON
      -- SEAL_BUILD_DEPS: ON
      -- SEAL_USE_MSGSL: ON
      -- Microsoft GSL: download ...
      CMake Warning (dev) at /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-build-env-0g7yuxc3/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cmake/data/share/cmake-4.0/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1953 (message):
        Calling FetchContent_Populate(msgsl) is deprecated, call
        FetchContent_MakeAvailable(msgsl) instead.  Policy CMP0169 can be set to
        OLD to allow FetchContent_Populate(msgsl) to be called directly for now,
        but the ability to call it with declared details will be removed completely
        in a future version.
      Call Stack (most recent call first):
        cmake/ExternalMSGSL.cmake:12 (FetchContent_Populate)
        cmake/SEALMacros.cmake:17 (include)
        CMakeLists.txt:150 (seal_fetch_thirdparty_content)
      This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.
      
      -- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)")
      -- SEAL_USE_ZLIB: ON
      -- ZLIB: download ...
      CMake Warning (dev) at /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-build-env-0g7yuxc3/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cmake/data/share/cmake-4.0/Modules/FetchContent.cmake:1953 (message):
        Calling FetchContent_Populate(zlib) is deprecated, call
        FetchContent_MakeAvailable(zlib) instead.  Policy CMP0169 can be set to OLD
        to allow FetchContent_Populate(zlib) to be called directly for now, but the
        ability to call it with declared details will be removed completely in a
        future version.
      Call Stack (most recent call first):
        cmake/ExternalZLIB.cmake:10 (FetchContent_Populate)
        cmake/SEALMacros.cmake:17 (include)
        CMakeLists.txt:169 (seal_fetch_thirdparty_content)
      This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.
      
      CMake Error at /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel/SEAL/thirdparty/zlib-src/CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
        Compatibility with CMake < 3.5 has been removed from CMake.
      
        Update the VERSION argument <min> value.  Or, use the <min>...<max> syntax
        to tell CMake that the project requires at least <min> but has been updated
        to work with policies introduced by <max> or earlier.
      
        Or, add -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to try configuring anyway.
      
      
      -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
      make: Makefile: No such file or directory
      make: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'.  Stop.
      building 'Afhel' shared library
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var/folders
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var/folders/k1
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel
      creating build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/Afhel
      /opt/homebrew/bin/gcc-12 -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -Wunreachable-code -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -DOPENSSL_NO_SSL3 -g -I/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/Afhel -I/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel/SEAL/native/src -I/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/Pyfhel/SEAL/thirdparty/msgsl-src/include -I/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/backend/SEAL/native/src -I/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/backend/SEAL/thirdparty/msgsl-src/include -c /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/Afhel/Afseal.cpp -o build/temp.macosx-14.6-arm64-3.8/private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/Afhel/Afseal.o -std=c++17 -O3 -Xpreprocessor -fopenmp
      In file included from /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/backend/SEAL/native/src/seal/util/defines.h:109,
                       from /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/backend/SEAL/native/src/seal/memorymanager.h:6,
                       from /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/backend/SEAL/native/src/seal/dynarray.h:6,
                       from /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/Afhel/Afseal.h:47,
                       from /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/Afhel/Afseal.cpp:32:
      /private/var/folders/k1/h08rjqb96z12t9_qn8794mt00000gn/T/pip-install-ahgkqjch/pyfhel_81a2506922814d45b7d0ef4d66a9a646/Pyfhel/backend/SEAL/native/src/seal/util/gcc.h:14:10: fatal error: seal/util/config.h: No such file or directory
         14 | #include "seal/util/config.h"
            |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      compilation terminated.
      error: command '/opt/homebrew/bin/gcc-12' failed with exit code 1
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyfhel
Failed to build pyfhel
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyfhel, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Setup:

• OS: MacOS 14.6
• Python: 3.8.19
• C compiler version: Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)
• Pyfhel Version: 3.4.2

[ffrusli]

I am experience the same problem. It works perfectly fine last week, suddenly today this happened to me. I seek for assistance too please @ibarrond .

Code to reproduce:

Requirement already satisfied: pip in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (25.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (78.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: wheel in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (0.45.1)
Collecting git+https://github.com/ibarrond/Pyfhel.git
  Cloning https://github.com/ibarrond/Pyfhel.git to /tmp/pip-req-build-3v2dc01e
  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/ibarrond/Pyfhel.git /tmp/pip-req-build-3v2dc01e
  Resolved https://github.com/ibarrond/Pyfhel.git to commit e8788d1abd55877e8dcfaf759966531a9b34b6ad
  Running command git submodule update --init --recursive -q
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.21 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Pyfhel==3.4.2) (1.26.4)
Building wheels for collected packages: Pyfhel
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Building wheel for Pyfhel (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> See above for output.
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  Building wheel for Pyfhel (pyproject.toml) ... error
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for Pyfhel
Failed to build Pyfhel
ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (Pyfhel)

Setup:
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Python: 3.10.16
C Compiler Version: gcc 11.4.0
Pyfhel Version: 3.4.2

[ShokofehVS]

@dunglee30 I checked previous reports (#223,194,182,174) about installation on macOS. After reading those, I believe they have resolved their issues by trying out with GCC (also take a look at the instructions to install in the readme). But Alberto has indeed a deeper understanding of your error.

@ffrusli, I have somewhat similar settings, but running Pyfhel. How can it happen you face error now? Maybe you have installed Pyfhel in a virtual environment.

[SomilkGupta]

The same is with me. I am trying to install on Google Colab using "!pip install pyfhel". The following error occurred:
Collecting pyfhel
Using cached Pyfhel-3.4.2.tar.gz (1.0 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.21 in /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages (from pyfhel) (2.0.2)
Building wheels for collected packages: pyfhel
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for pyfhel (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
Building wheel for pyfhel (pyproject.toml) ... error
ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyfhel
Failed to build pyfhel
ERROR: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (pyfhel)

[nachocodexx]

Here, the same error that @dunglee30 posted. I'm trying to install Pyfhel using Ubuntu (with WSL), Python 3.10, poetry 2.0, and inside a virtual environment (using poetry shell) in a different computer and I cannot get it. This configuration is the same as my main computer, so Pyfhel works like a charm on my laptop with the same setup.

[nachocodexx]

Something about this problem !?

[nachocodexx]

Any solution? it used to work great, and could be installed in virtual environments, now I get the error that @dunglee30 described in the issue.

[nachocodexx]

Hi everyone after a long time and hard work I have succeeded installing Pyfhel.

I'm gonna share with you a Dockerfile that successfully install Pyfhel 3.4.2:

https://gist.github.com/nachocodexx/f1c8b281ddb2f69377c925222a1acab5

[AlexanderViand]

The error mentioned in the first post seems to be because modern versions of cmake (e.g., what modern ubuntu will give you if you apt install cmake) refuse to build (a dependency of) the old version of SEAL we were using:

CMake Error at [...]/Pyfhel/SEAL/thirdparty/zlib-src/CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required): Compatibility with CMake < 3.5 has been removed from CMake.

Rather than recommending people downgrade their cmake version, I think we can just bump our SEAL dependency to the most recent version. I'll put a PR together to fix this + the Python 3.12 issues (caused by our numpy depenceny being an older version that's not 3.12 compatible) later

[sevincEr]

#261 #257

I solved this issue on Google Colab with the following steps:

1. Change working directory to /content:

%cd /content
import os
os.chdir('/content')

2. Install Pyfhel directly from GitHub with build isolation disabled:

!pip install --no-build-isolation --no-cache-dir git+https://github.com/ibarrond/Pyfhel.git

The key point is to run these commands from a valid directory like /content, and use the --no-build-isolation flag to avoid build errors on Colab.

This solved the Failed building wheel for pyfhel problem for me.

Hope this helps!

[ibarrond]

Should be solved now! The CI passes for all three platforms on Python3.12 & 3.13