Building sphericart on Windows

[MMarwa95]

Hello,

I am encountering an issue while trying to install the sphericart package. Despite having CMake and C++ Visual Studio installed, I receive the following error message during installation:

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for sphericart
Failed to build sphericart
ERROR: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (sphericart)

System Information:

Operating System: Windows 10 pro 19045.4651
Python Version: 3.12.3
CMake Version: 3.30.0
Visual Studio Version: 17.10.4

Steps to Reproduce:

1-Install CMake and C++ Visual Studio.
2-Attempt to install sphericart using pip.
3-Observe the error message above.

I would appreciate any guidance or suggestions to resolve this issue.

Thank you!

Best regards,

Marwa Mansouri

[nickjbrowning]

Hi Marwa,

Sphericart doesn't currently support Windows. See: #89 and #27.

If possible, I'd recommend using WSL2 (linux subsystem for windows) and install sphericart through that: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

Visual studio code (VSC) has support for WSL2 through remote extensions, so you can work within the Linux subsystem while running VSC from windows.

[frostedoyster]

Indeed what @nickjbrowning mentions is a good solution. Otherwise, an experimental Windows build is available in the build-windows branch (only supporting C++ and Python for now). From private correspondence, @MMarwa95 was able to install sphericart successfully from that branch on Windows