macOS install problem - `AttributeError: module 'sipbuild.api' has no attribute 'prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel'` #35

tedthetrumpet · 2022-05-18T10:51:23Z

tedthetrumpet
May 18, 2022

I am hitting some sort of problem with the install on macOS 12.4, as below. Any ideas?

Last login: Wed May 18 10:29:56 on console
jsimon@jsairm ~ % pip install neoscore
Collecting neoscore
  Downloading neoscore-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (932 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 932.8/932.8 kB 7.2 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Collecting sortedcontainers==2.4.0
  Downloading sortedcontainers-2.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (29 kB)
Collecting PyQt5<6.0.0,>=5.15.6
  Downloading PyQt5-5.15.6.tar.gz (3.2 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.2/3.2 MB 9.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [29 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 156, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
          hook = backend.prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
      AttributeError: module 'sipbuild.api' has no attribute 'prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel'
      
      During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
      
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 363, in <module>
          main()
        File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 345, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
        File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 160, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
          whl_basename = backend.build_wheel(metadata_directory, config_settings)
        File "/private/var/folders/lg/3c1b35bj7v7685m629_tfqkh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-q7i_oaoj/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/sipbuild/api.py", line 51, in build_wheel
          project = AbstractProject.bootstrap('pep517')
        File "/private/var/folders/lg/3c1b35bj7v7685m629_tfqkh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-q7i_oaoj/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/sipbuild/abstract_project.py", line 83, in bootstrap
          project.setup(pyproject, tool, tool_description)
        File "/private/var/folders/lg/3c1b35bj7v7685m629_tfqkh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-q7i_oaoj/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/sipbuild/project.py", line 594, in setup
          self.apply_user_defaults(tool)
        File "/private/var/folders/lg/3c1b35bj7v7685m629_tfqkh0000gn/T/pip-install-eakcgivf/pyqt5_746201daaf88444cb717f31562acb8d1/project.py", line 63, in apply_user_defaults
          super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
        File "/private/var/folders/lg/3c1b35bj7v7685m629_tfqkh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-q7i_oaoj/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyqtbuild/project.py", line 70, in apply_user_defaults
          super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
        File "/private/var/folders/lg/3c1b35bj7v7685m629_tfqkh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-q7i_oaoj/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/sipbuild/project.py", line 241, in apply_user_defaults
          self.builder.apply_user_defaults(tool)
        File "/private/var/folders/lg/3c1b35bj7v7685m629_tfqkh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-q7i_oaoj/overlay/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyqtbuild/builder.py", line 67, in apply_user_defaults
          raise PyProjectOptionException('qmake',
      sipbuild.pyproject.PyProjectOptionException
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
jsimon@jsairm ~ % python3 --version
Python 3.10.4
jsimon@jsairm ~ %

Answered by ajyoon

May 18, 2022

For future reference, the solution to this problem is now documented here.

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ajyoon · 2022-05-18T15:02:29Z

ajyoon
May 18, 2022
Maintainer

Looks like this is a known issue with PyQt and M1 chips. Could you try running pip install --upgrade pip and then try installing neoscore again?

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ajyoon May 18, 2022
Maintainer

hmmm.. could you try following the instructions here to run from within Rosetta? sorry this is such a hassle, it's an upstream issue with PyQt on the latest Mac architecture many people have run into

tedthetrumpet May 18, 2022
Author

Well, that's a slightly terrifying series of instructions, but so far so good: Successfully installed PyQt5-5.15.6 PyQt5-Qt5-5.15.2 PyQt5-sip-12.10.1

tedthetrumpet May 18, 2022
Author

Looks good!

ajyoon May 18, 2022
Maintainer

Excellent! I'll update the troubleshooting guide to include this case. Thanks for sticking with it, and I hope you have fun playing around with the library!

tedthetrumpet May 18, 2022
Author

Yup, thanks, the 'hello world' program at least seems fine :)

ajyoon · 2022-05-18T19:13:49Z

ajyoon
May 18, 2022
Maintainer

For future reference, the solution to this problem is now documented here.

0 replies

richardhoadley · 2022-06-22T17:46:02Z

richardhoadley
Jun 22, 2022

Hi, I'm trying to install neoscore on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian v10 (buster). I'm getting exactly the same error(s) as above and I've tried most of the above suggestions, except, of course, that I have no Rosetta to run from! Is there anything that I can do to progress? I have, incidentally, managed to get neoscore working on a Mac running 10.13.6.

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craigvear Jun 22, 2022
Maintainer

Hi Richard. PyQT is a dependency for Neoscore, but getting it to work on Raspian needs some additional work beyond the Pip install. I have followed this previously with some success https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/62939/pyqt5-on-a-raspberry-pi#63058

I had to install pyqt5 first, checking it, then install Neoscore.

ajyoon · 2022-07-07T16:28:31Z

ajyoon
Jul 7, 2022
Maintainer

FYI all, (@tedthetrumpet @richardhoadley) we just released neoscore 0.1.3, which reduces the minimum required Python version to 3.7 and should improve PyQt support since there are prebuilt wheels for 3.7. M1 chips still require Rosetta, but otherwise we broadly expect this should fix most PyQt-related installation issues.

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richardhoadley · 2022-10-11T07:10:04Z

richardhoadley
Oct 11, 2022

Hi Craig Thanks for responding so quickly! I’ve had no luck with this so far, but will have time to continue in a few days and will post again if I have any success. Just a quick question in the meantime, should I install pyqt5 in the main programme space, or the virtual space I’ve created for neoscore? Sorry if this is a silly question, but I’m not used to serious programming in Python – the most I’ve done is helping my daughter (12 years old at the time!) write a (text only) game in Python for her home work, and that was a couple of years ago… Best Richard

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On 22 Jun 2022, at 19:06, Craig Vear ***@***.***> wrote: Hi Richard. PyQT is a dependency for Neoscore, but getting it to work on Raspian needs some additional work beyond the Pip install. I have followed this previously with some success https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/62939/pyqt5-on-a-raspberry-pi#63058 <https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/62939/pyqt5-on-a-raspberry-pi#63058> I had to install pyqt5 first, checking it, then install Neoscore. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#35 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADA3HLE2Y5ME24A2CKMZLMTVQNI3BANCNFSM5WIBDSYQ>. You are receiving this because you commented.

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ajyoon Oct 11, 2022
Maintainer

I recommend confirming you're installing pyqt / neoscore on python 3.7 by running python --version before attempting to pip install. In general we recommend following standard Python best practices by making a dedicated virtual environment for each project and installing neoscore and other dependencies in that environment. There is a good guide for using virtual environments here. That said, because Raspberry Pi's are often used for a single project each, it may not be such a big deal to cheat with it.

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