"ERROR: Failed building wheel for praat-parselmouth" on Ubuntu

[yayuanli]

Hi community,

I came across ERROR: Failed building wheel for praat-parselmouth when I do pip install praat-parselmouth or pip install praat-parselmouth==0.4.2.

OS: Ubuntu-22.04.2
Python: 3.10.6

Full output (too long to fit here): google doc

Any idea why this happened and how to solve it? I will appreciate any discussion.

Thank you

[YannickJadoul]

Hi @yayuanli! Is there any reason you're building the wheel yourself, rather than using the binary wheels on PyPI? Are you on some particular platform (which might also explain the error)?

From what I can see from the error (thanks for including the full, long error message; extremely useful!), the X11/Xlib.h header is lacking, so one way of solving this is to sudo apt install libx11-dev on your Ubuntu.

However, the larger question/issue is why this dependency is there. I think it's a leftover from using the Praat code, and I actually removed it at some point on my development branch: 6a94d3b. But it seems this hasn't made it into a release yet (as I've hardly had time to work on Parselmouth over the last 2 years, so haven't found time to make new minor release). At any rate it's another option, if you do not wish to install libx11-dev: download the source code of the latest release (https://github.com/YannickJadoul/Parselmouth/tree/v0.4.3), comment out this sendpraat.c in parselmouth/praat/sys/CMakeLists.txt (like in 6a94d3b), and pip install that adapted source folder.

[jegraham-amplify]

EDIT 2 - figured it out. I found this issue about ARM support, and updated the target platform for the Docker image. That solved the issue!

I'm running into this same problem, where the wheels fail to build. I have an application that is using praat-parselmouth, and I'm looking to deploy it via a Docker container. During the pip install -r requirements.txt, I get the same ERROR: Failed building wheel for praat-parselmouth. I've added apt-get install libx11-dev to the Dockerfile (before it tries to install the requirements), but I still run into the same issue.

I did also try Python 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. All had the same issue.

Pastebin of output: https://pastebin.com/ALJj3PBd

This is what my Dockerfile is currently doing:

FROM python:3.12

WORKDIR /app
COPY . /app

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y \
		praat \
		libx11-dev \
		cmake \
		build-essential

RUN pip install --no-cache-dir praat-parselmouth==0.4.3

Edit to Note: I specified version 0.4.3 because I found the issue about Python 3.12 support. Removing the version specification doesn't make a difference.

[YannickJadoul]

Hi, @jegraham-amplify, and sorry for the mess! I'm not sure I understood the exact issue (also cause the CMake output is missing from the pastebin link), but great to hear it worked in the end! :-)