Failed building wheel for spacy

Question

I'm trying to install spacy by running pip install spacy for python version 3.6.1 but continuously i'm getting errors like below,how to get rid of this issue? previously i was having cl.exe not found error, after that i added visual studio path in environment variables where cl.exe exists.

     Failed building wheel for spacy
  Running setup.py clean for spacy
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for murmurhash ... error
  Complete output from command c:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\SH0042~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-joi6voav\\murmurhash\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpa6tzdkovpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for murmurhash
  Running setup.py clean for murmurhash
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for cymem ... error
  Complete output from command c:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\SH0042~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-joi6voav\\cymem\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpz7p6hkiwpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:

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  Failed building wheel for cymem
  Running setup.py clean for cymem
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for preshed ... error
  Complete output from command c:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\SH0042~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-joi6voav\\preshed\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpwppgmyp9pip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:

  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for preshed
  Running setup.py clean for preshed
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for thinc ... error
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  Failed building wheel for thinc
  Running setup.py clean for thinc
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for ujson ... error
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for ujson
  Running setup.py clean for ujson
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for cytoolz ... error
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for cytoolz
  Running setup.py clean for cytoolz
Failed to build spacy murmurhash cymem preshed thinc ujson cytoolz
Installing collected packages: murmurhash, cymem, preshed, wrapt, tqdm, toolz, cytoolz, plac, pyreadline, dill, termcolor, pathlib, thinc, ujson, regex, spacy
  Running setup.py install for murmurhash ... error

   C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -Ic:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\include -IC:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-joi6voav\murmurhash\murmurhash\include -Ic:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\include -Ic:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\include /EHsc /Tpmurmurhash/mrmr.cpp /Fobuild\temp.win-amd64-3.6\Release\murmurhash/mrmr.obj /Ox /EHsc
    mrmr.cpp
    c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'murmurhash/mrmr.cpp': No such file or directory
    error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\bin\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2

    ----------------------------------------
Command "c:\users\sh00428701\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\SH0042~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-joi6voav\\murmurhash\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-_j1cxej1-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\SH0042~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-joi6voav\murmurhash\

Solution 1

A couple thoughts:

• Grab the various wheel files you need from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#spacy and install with pip install x.whl y.whl etc.
• Upgrade your version of cpp build tools to 2017 and try pip again

Solution 2

for me, pip install --no-cache-dir spacy worked

Solution 3

I installed these packages, then it works:

sudo apt-get install python-dev 
sudo apt-get install python3-dev 
sudo apt-get install libevent-dev

Solution 4

This worked for me:

# Note, use sudo. I'm in a docker image, so i dont need it.

# install dev libs
apt-get install python-dev -y && \
apt-get install python3-dev -y && \
apt-get install libevent-dev -y && \

# install new gcc
apt-get update && \
apt-get install build-essential software-properties-common -y && \
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y && \
apt-get update && \
apt-get install gcc-snapshot -y && \
apt-get update && \
apt-get install gcc-6 g++-6 -y && \
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-6 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-6 && \
apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 -y && \
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8;

see https://gist.github.com/application2000/73fd6f4bf1be6600a2cf9f56315a2d91

Solution 5

conda install -c conda-forge spacy worked for me. I have windows 10 and Python 3.5.3 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)

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Comments

[Reddspark]

What's the Windows equivalent?

[Mustard Tiger]

The first option worked for me on Windows 64 bit, python 2.7. Just a note you also need to cytoolz and ujson from : lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs

[Pramod S. Nikam]

Whats equivalent for yum RHEL

[Taivas Gogoljuk]

Updated based on feedback.

[greenbergé]

Awesome! I spent hours trying to figure this out. This simple little line has spared me my sanity. Thanks!

[McMintz]

Dude, you just saved my life on this. Thank you so much

[rfinz]

correct solution if install is failing because your /tmp volume is running out of space

[vivekanon]

What's the mac alternative?

[kRazzy R]

is this for ubuntu ?

[VeraKozya]

on Windows you can use Cygwin's installer (just re-run it again if you already have Cygwin) to add these packages

[Pretasoc]

Based on the question i assume the op uses windows. So this may not help the OP.

[Abhishek Chauhan]

I agree. Answer is for someone like me who comes searching.

[Franva]

What's the Raspbian/Linux alternative?