P5 fails to install on M1 Mac

[weschao]

MacOS Monterey 12.4, Python 3.10.6

pip3 install p5 fails, with about 2000 lines of errors, ending with:

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

I suspect the error is that p5 requires numpy 1.18.5, but it looks like M1 support for numpy wasn't introduced until 1.21.

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[weschao]

Workaround: pip install p5 (this will fail; that’s ok) pip install numpy (this installs the latest version) pip install freetype-py glfw pillow pyopengl-accelerate requests skia-python vispy (installs everything that comes after numpy)

[tushar5526]

Can you try installing it from GitHub directly? We have updated the dependency but a release is yet to be made.

[weschao]

Sure, happy to try. How do I install it from Github, though? The installation instructions link directs me to use pip install.

[tushar5526]

You can clone the repo and do pip install . in the cloned repo directory or you could use pip install git+https://github.com/p5py/p5.git#egg=p5. I would also recommend you to use virtual environments (you can google about it) in python if you are new to it.

[ahdistefano]

You can clone the repo and do pip install . in the cloned repo directory or you could use pip install git+https://github.com/p5py/p5.git#egg=p5. I would also recommend you to use virtual environments (you can google about it) in python if you are new to it.

Thanks, that was definitely it. I was having all sort of errors trying to install 0.8.0 in Windows, installing p5 through the mentioned command worked.

[tushar5526]

@ahdistefano Yes, we will make the new release soon once some issues for MAC are fixed here. Also, do try the new 2D renderer and feel free to open an issue if you face any bugs!

[Zhu-Aemon]

thanks! pip install git+https://github.com/p5py/p5.git#egg=p5 works for me on my M1 macOS Ventura MacBook Air

You can clone the repo and do pip install . in the cloned repo directory or you could use pip install git+https://github.com/p5py/p5.git#egg=p5. I would also recommend you to use virtual environments (you can google about it) in python if you are new to it.

[tushar5526]

With the new release, one can just do a pip install p5 now.