python bindings depends on setuptools

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Work environment

Questions	Answers
OS/arch/bits	Debian arm 64
Architecture	armv8
Source of Capstone	pip
Version/git commit	v5.0.1

Expected behavior

import capstone to work

Actual behavior

is not working

Steps to reproduce the behavior

pip install capstone results in "error unable to import pkg_resources". which is a module distributed with setuptools package. In order to fix that one of those two options must be picked

• remove setuptools dependency
• add setuptools as dependency

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Please fill out the issue template. Also for the other issues. Which Capstone version are you talking about?

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root@7a1a5043e38d:/# pip3 install capstone --break-system-packages
Collecting capstone
  Downloading capstone-5.0.1.tar.gz (2.9 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2.9/2.9 MB 16.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Installing backend dependencies ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: capstone
  Building wheel for capstone (pyproject.toml) ... done
  Created wheel for capstone: filename=capstone-5.0.1-py3-none-manylinux1_aarch64.whl size=2828045 sha256=dfc2f39d0bd3d4b4336db71515cd6858227cbb7ce037923ab3180c435db30f49
  Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/5c/b1/25/2e6a9e9483eb8dbf0a852572ab53a8f4bb15e219bf356322fb
Successfully built capstone
Installing collected packages: capstone
Successfully installed capstone-5.0.1
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
root@7a1a5043e38d:/# python3
Python 3.11.9 (main, Apr 10 2024, 13:16:36) [GCC 13.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import capstone
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/capstone/__init__.py", line 380, in <module>
    import pkg_resources
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
>>>

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honored the issue template now

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This should be fixed with the lates Python update effort. Could you check again please?

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Close this as completed with https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone/pull/2396.