Installing chatterbot but getting "ERROR: Could not build wheels for spacy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly"

Question

I'm trying to install chatterbot on macOS with

python3 -m pip install chatterbot

and every time I get the same error during the step "Installing build dependencies ... /"

ERROR: Failed building wheel for spacy
Running setup.py clean for spacy
Failed to build spacy
ERROR: Could not build wheels for spacy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

Can someone please help?

Installing collected packages: spacy, chatterbot
  Running setup.py install for spacy ... error
    ERROR: Complete output from command /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3 -u -c 'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/ry/sht50z853vn58nwg6wbzt4l00000gn/T/pip-install-33629q9f/spacy/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /private/var/folders/ry/sht50z853vn58nwg6wbzt4l00000gn/T/pip-record-z9jsui8q/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    ERROR: running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib.macosx-10.9-x86_64-3.7
    creating build/lib.macosx-10.9-x86_64-3.7/spacy
    copying spacy/lemmatizer.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.9-x86_64-3.7/spacy


running build_ext
    building 'spacy._align' extension
    creating build/temp.macosx-10.9-x86_64-3.7
    creating build/temp.macosx-10.9-x86_64-3.7/spacy
    gcc -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -Wunreachable-code -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -arch x86_64 -g -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m -I/private/var/folders/ry/sht50z853vn58nwg6wbzt4l00000gn/T/pip-install-33629q9f/spacy/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/include/python3.7m -c spacy/_align.cpp -o build/temp.macosx-10.9-x86_64-3.7/spacy/_align.o -O2 -Wno-strict-prototypes -Wno-unused-function -stdlib=libc++
    xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
    error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3 -u -c 'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/ry/sht50z853vn58nwg6wbzt4l00000gn/T/pip-install-33629q9f/spacy/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /private/var/folders/ry/sht50z853vn58nwg6wbzt4l00000gn/T/pip-record-z9jsui8q/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/ry/sht50z853vn58nwg6wbzt4l00000gn/T/pip-install-33629q9f/spacy/

Answer 1

You could try python3 -m pip install --no-binary spacy chatterbot, which should tell pip to not build the wheel

Alternately python3 -m pip install --no-use-pep517 chatterbot.