Installing pynitrokey on mac Sequoia with pipx

[randy368]

Installing pipx correctly.
On command: pipx install pynitrokey --> Fatal error from pipx ...
pip seemed to fail to build package: hidapi<0.14.0.post4,>=0.14.0.post1

How can i solve? thank you.

[randy368]

When I launch the command "pipx install pynitrokey" , this warning appears on the screen: The "xcrun" command requres the command tools. Would .. install? .. Ok, I tried but the download takes a long time. Is this the correct procedure?

[robin-nitrokey]

pipx should produce a log file with more details about the error. Can you please share it as well as the output of pip debug --verbose?

[randy368]

pipx should produce a log file with more details about the error. Can you please share it as well as the output of pip debug --verbose?

Thanks, copy and paste here the message from log file...
He understood the problem.. the fact is that I don't want to install all the XCODE package that my pc asks me when I launch the command "pipx install pynitrokey" (mac Sequoia shows me a message on the screen to install the missing files but by doing that, I download the whole application). How can I avoid this step? Is it possible, for example, to use another pipx command to install pynitrokey directly from github?

log:

PIP STDOUT

Collecting pynitrokey
Using cached pynitrokey-0.7.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.5 kB)
Collecting cffi (from pynitrokey)
Using cached cffi-1.17.1-cp313-cp313-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl.metadata (1.5 kB)
Collecting click<9,>=8.1.6 (from pynitrokey)
Using cached click-8.1.8-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.3 kB)
Collecting cryptography<45,>=43 (from pynitrokey)
Using cached cryptography-44.0.0-cp39-abi3-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl.metadata (5.7 kB)
Collecting ecdsa (from pynitrokey)
Using cached ecdsa-0.19.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (29 kB)
Collecting fido2<2,>=1.2.0 (from pynitrokey)
Using cached fido2-1.2.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.4 kB)
Collecting hidapi<0.14.0.post4,>=0.14.0.post1 (from pynitrokey)
Using cached hidapi-0.14.0.post2.tar.gz (172 kB)
Installing build dependencies: started
Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
Getting requirements to build wheel: started
Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'error'

PIP STDERR

error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [32 lines of output]
xcode-select: note: No developer tools were found, requesting install.
If developer tools are located at a non-default location on disk, use sudo xcode-select --switch path/to/Xcode.app to specify the Xcode that you wish to use for command line developer tools, and cancel the installation dialog.
See man xcode-select for more details.

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subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['xcrun', '--show-sdk-path']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

Thanks a lot!

[robin-nitrokey]

Normally, pipx should use pre-compiled binaries from PyPI instead of trying to compile them from source. I have a guess why this is not the case here, but to verify it I would need the output of pip debug --verbose.

[robin-nitrokey]

I’ve prepared a fix for the suspected cause here: #615

You can try it with:

pipx install git+https://github.com/Nitrokey/pynitrokey.git@refs/pull/615/head --suffix=-pr615

Does that command run successfully?

[randy368]

Hi, no it doesen't work but I fixed it by downloading the xcode command line!
Thanks for your support.