I would like to install spaCy V3.2.1 in my virtual environment (MacBook Air, Apple M1 processor, MACOs Ventura 13.0). The commands I run, inspired by the spaCy widget and the specific information for Apple computers, are:
# Create and activate virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
# Install latest pip version
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
# Install spaCy with my needed requirements
pip install setuptools wheel
pip install -U 'spacy[apple]'==3.2.1
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
The previous commands get me the following error:
1 error generated.
error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit code 1
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Failed building wheel for spacy
Failed to build spacy
ERROR: Could not build wheels for spacy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly
UPDATE: The full error can be temporarily found here.
If I run pip install -U 'spacy[apple]' alone, this will (successfully) install spaCy V3.4.3, which is the latest release when this post was written, BUT this is NOT what I am looking for.
IMPORTANT: It is preferred to install spaCy V3.2.1 via pip, however not mandatory (i.e., as long as I have that spaCy version installed in venv and can be successfully imported from Python scripts, it will work for me).
Thanks!
As suggested in the comment section, the error got solved after upgrading OS to macOS Ventura 13, which implicitely upgraded Xcode to version 14.1.