Installing wxPython using pip3 on M1 processor fails with the following error

[Nischith Honnavar]

Hi all, 

I have trouble installing wxPython on M1 processor using pip command.

        python3 -m pip install -U --user wxPython==4.1.1

It errors out with the following errors, any help would be greatly appreciated.

/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/ext/wxWidgets/src/common/imagtiff.cpp:37:14: fatal error: 'tiff.h' file not found

#include "tiff.h"

^~~~~~~~

1 error generated.

/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/build/wxbld/bk-deps g++ -std=gnu++11 -mmacosx-version-min=10.10 -c -o coredll_menucmn.o -I/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/ext/wxWidgets/src/jpeg -I/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/ext/wxWidgets/src/png -I/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/ext/wxWidgets/src/zlib -I/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/ext/wxWidgets/src/regex -I/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/build/wxbld/lib/wx/include/osx_cocoa-unicode-3.1 -I/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/ext/wxWidgets/include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__WXOSX_COCOA__ -DWXBUILDING -DWXUSINGDLL -DWXMAKINGDLL_CORE -DwxUSE_BASE=0 -dynamic -fPIC -DPIC -Wall -Wundef -Wunused-parameter -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-deprecated-declarations -O2 -fno-common -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden /private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/ext/wxWidgets/src/common/menucmn.cpp

make: *** [coredll_imagtiff.o] Error 1

make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Error building

ERROR: failed building wxWidgets

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/build.py", line 1510, in cmd_build_wx

wxbuild.main(wxDir(), build_options)

File "/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 496, in main

exitIfError(wxBuilder.build(dir=buildDir, options=args), "Error building")

File "/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/buildtools/build_wxwidgets.py", line 85, in exitIfError

raise builder.BuildError(msg)

buildtools.builder.BuildError: Error building

Finished command: build_wx (1m18.625s)

Finished command: build (1m18.625s)

Command '"/usr/local/bin/python3" -u build.py build' failed with exit code 1.

----------------------------------------

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/local/bin/python3 -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-install-te45wdfi/wxpython_1817d47724b04219aa27ca5509320abb/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/_t/2_vmtfvn7f51ssklbmsvtqcm0000gn/T/pip-record-cf6hmtvk/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /Users/plswtest/Library/Python/3.10/include/python3.10/wxPython Check the logs for full command output.

Thanks,

Nischith

[Robin Dunn]

This has been fixed in recent updates. You can try a 4.1.2 prerelease build from https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds. There are source archive files there that should be able to be built by pip, and there are also binaries if you want to avoid the build. You can either grab the files and work with them locally, or you can tell pip to use them with a command like this:

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

[Nischith Honnavar]

Thanks Robin. I'll try the suggested version.

However, I found a workaround for building(wxPython-4.1.1) from sources, below is the recipe:

• brew install doxygen   #dependency for build step below

• git clone https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix.git && cd Phoenix

• git checkout wxPython-4.1.1 

• git cherrypick b40ab0f806bdf7aa0c0a51a8c4876ac47754515d  #cherry-pick commit for resolving above python 3.10 issue

• git submodule update --init --recursive

• export CXXFLAGS=-I$(brew --prefix)/include

• python3 build.py dox etg --nodoc sip build 

• python3 setup.py install