Building wheel for pocketsphinx5 (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.

[alekione]

I was tring to install it as you've suggested in README.md file but i got this error. Can you please help me out...
I was running the command pip install .

Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: pocketsphinx5
  Building wheel for pocketsphinx5 (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Building wheel for pocketsphinx5 (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [9 lines of output]
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-sw9cx83b/overlay/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/skbuild/setuptools_wrap.py", line 613, in setup
          cmkr = cmaker.CMaker(cmake_executable)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-sw9cx83b/overlay/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/skbuild/cmaker.py", line 141, in __init__
          self.cmake_version = get_cmake_version(self.cmake_executable)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-sw9cx83b/overlay/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/skbuild/cmaker.py", line 95, in get_cmake_version
          raise SKBuildError(
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      
      Problem with the CMake installation, aborting build. CMake executable is cmake
      [end of output]

[alekione]

I,m using kali-linux 5.18.0-kali5-amd64

[dhdaines]

Hi, is that really all the output that it gives you?

I don't really know what kali-linux is, but it seems that it is not possible to use scikit-build on it, in which case this is either a bug in kali-linux or in scikit-build.

Please try to install scikit-build and build one of the sample projects, and if that works, then perhaps there is a problem with PocketSphinx.

[ZouFurong]

hi, were you able to solve this problem? I got the same issue today

[dhdaines]

hi, were you able to solve this problem? I got the same issue today

What OS are you using? It works on Ubuntu 22.04, 23.10, MacOS 12 and 13, and Windows 10.

From what I know about Kali Linux, which is not much, you shouldn't expect to be able to compile/install things on it, for some surely very important reasons (though this didn't seem to prevent it being vulnerable to the recent xz backdoor)

[dhdaines]

Also make sure you are using the latest version (5.0.3 or the source from git) as the switch to skbuild-core seems to have resolved a number of issues.

[ZouFurong]

Thank you for you information! Unfortunately I'm using Windows 11 pro.

[dhdaines]

Hmmm... can you use the binary packages from PyPI? pip install pocketsphinx ought to work at least.

Building on Windows can be a bit of a black art in general.