Could not build wheels for spidev

[Rajanand]

While attempting to install spidev through pip install spidev the process returned with an error as below,

Failed to build spidev
ERROR: Could not build wheels for spidev, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

[Vishnu_Naik]

While attempting to install spidev through pip install spidev the process returned with an error as below,

Failed to build spidev
ERROR: Could not build wheels for spidev, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

@beyond-space21 This could be a cascade error, which means this error is caused by another error that happened earlier. Could you try to read the error thrown just before this error in the traceback error stack?

As this package embeds C code, pip tries to compile the C code before installing. Hence a C compiler is required for this purpose. Sometimes, this process could be causing the issue, so I suggest installing a C compiler like gcc.

[Henrik Larsson]

I am getting the same error message. I have gcc installed.

`$ sudo pip3 install spidev --pre
Collecting spidev
Using cached spidev-3.6.tar.gz (11 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: spidev
Building wheel for spidev (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for spidev (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [69 lines of output]
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py:723: UserWarning: Usage of dash-separated 'description-file' will not be supported in future versions. Please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead
warnings.warn(
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_ext
building 'spidev' extension
creating build
creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.11
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -g -fwrapv -O2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.11 -c spidev_module.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.11/spidev_module.o
creating build/lib.linux-armv7l-3.11
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -g -fwrapv -O2 build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.11/spidev_module.o -L/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -o build/lib.linux-armv7l-3.11/spidev.cpython-311-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so
installing to build/bdist.linux-armv7l/wheel
running install
running install_lib
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 363, in
main()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 345, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 261, in build_wheel
return _build_backend().build_wheel(wheel_directory, config_settings,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 230, in build_wheel
return self._build_with_temp_dir(['bdist_wheel'], '.whl',
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 215, in _build_with_temp_dir
self.run_setup()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 158, in run_setup
exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'), locals())
File "setup.py", line 26, in
setup( name = "spidev",
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 153, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
return run_commands(dist)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 163, in run_commands
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 967, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 986, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py", line 335, in run
self.run_command('install')
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 986, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 68, in run
return orig.install.run(self)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/install.py", line 622, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 107, in ensure_finalized
self.finalize_options()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install_lib.py", line 17, in finalize_options
self.set_undefined_options('install',('install_layout','install_layout'))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 290, in set_undefined_options
setattr(self, dst_option, getattr(src_cmd_obj, src_option))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 103, in getattr
raise AttributeError(attr)
AttributeError: install_layout. Did you mean: 'install_platlib'?
[end of output]

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