ERROR: Could not build wheels for faiss-cpu, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects in FreeBSD

[muktadiur]

Describe the bug
In FreeBSD pip install of faiss-cpu failed building wheel for faiss-cpu

To Reproduce

pip install faiss-cpu

Collecting faiss-cpu
Using cached faiss-cpu-1.7.4.tar.gz (57 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: faiss-cpu
Building wheel for faiss-cpu (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for faiss-cpu (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [8 lines of output]
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'faiss._swigfaiss' extension
swigging faiss/faiss/python/swigfaiss.i to faiss/faiss/python/swigfaiss_wrap.cpp
swig -python -c++ -Doverride= -I/usr/local/include -Ifaiss -doxygen -module swigfaiss -o faiss/faiss/python/swigfaiss_wrap.cpp faiss/faiss/python/swigfaiss.i
error: command 'swig' failed: No such file or directory
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for faiss-cpu
Failed to build faiss-cpu
ERROR: Could not build wheels for faiss-cpu, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Desktop:

• OS: FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC
• Architecture: amd64
• Python: 3.9.16
• Version: 1.7.4

[kyamagu]

The build requirement is explicitly stated in the README

For building sdist, swig 3.0.12 or later needs to be available.

[Arjun143aish]

Hi, Am facing same issue. what exactly needs to be sorted?
am using python 3.11.3

[Arjun143aish]

I installed SWIG too. yet same issue.

[ririzu]

I had the same issue, I downgraded from python 3.12 to python 3.9 and it worked. I am using visual studio code through anaconda.

[dlqqq]

This error just means that pip is trying to build faiss-cpu on its own because there are no available wheels for your platform. Your platform is a combination of your 1) OS name, 2) CPU architecture, and 3) CPython version.

We can see what wheels are available by looking at this page on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/faiss-cpu/#files

As you can see, there are no wheels for BSD-likes except macOS, or for CPython 3.12+ (see #87).

For most people (like @ririzu), the workaround for now is to downgrade to CPython 3.11 or below. Hope this helps! 👋

[amisamyra99]

This error just means that pip is trying to build faiss-cpu on its own because there are no available wheels for your platform. Your platform is a combination of your 1) OS name, 2) CPU architecture, and 3) CPython version.

We can see what wheels are available by looking at this page on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/faiss-cpu/#files

As you can see, there are no wheels for BSD-likes except macOS, or for CPython 3.12+ (see #87).

For most people (like @ririzu), the workaround for now is to downgrade to CPython 3.11 or below. Hope this helps! 👋

Thank you that has worked for me