"ERROR: Failed building wheel for chroma-hnswlib" trying to install chromadb on Mac / VScode

Question

I tried to install chromadb on my .venv and I got the ERROR: Failed building wheel for chroma-hnswlib.

More info about the error below:

[Building wheel for chroma-hnswlib (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

Building wheel for chroma-hnswlib (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
exit code: 1
[17 lines of output]
running bdist_wheel

*Continues the error (...)*

clang: error: the clang compiler does not support '-march=native'
error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit code 1
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for chroma-hnswlib
Failed to build chroma-hnswlib
ERROR: Could not build wheels for chroma-hnswlib, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects]

I'm using VS code in a Mac. Python version 3.11.4 in my .venv

Already tried updating Pip and the Setup tools, didn't worked. Anyone has another solution for that?

Answer 1

Following up on @Harit Sharma's answer: it requires Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater Therefore install Microsoft C++ Build Tools from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/ Then follow the steps on: https://github.com/bycloudai/InstallVSBuildToolsWindows

It will solve your problem.