python3 -m pip install pyscard fails on MacOS

[BMW1Addict]

Your system information

• Operating system used: MacOS
• pyscard version: Trying to install latest version
• Python version: 3.11.4

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen. simply typed python3 -m pip install pyscard from MacOS terminal and received the following error:

Describe what did happen. python3 -m pip install pyscard Collecting pyscard Using cached pyscard-2.0.7.tar.gz (152 kB) Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel ... done Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done Building wheels for collected packages: pyscard Building wheel for pyscard (pyproject.toml) ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for pyscard (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [8 lines of output] running bdist_wheel running build running build_py running build_ext building 'smartcard.scard._scard' extension swigging smartcard/scard/scard.i to smartcard/scard/scard_wrap.c swig -python -outdir smartcard/scard -DPCSCLITE -DAPPLE -o smartcard/scard/scard_wrap.c smartcard/scard/scard.i error: command 'swig' failed: No such file or directory [end of output]

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

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. python3 -m pip install pyscard

[LudovicRousseau]

The error is obvious:

 error: command 'swig' failed: No such file or directory

Install swig and try again. You can use homebrew.

For macOS pypi only provides a binary for Python 3.9, not 3.11. https://pypi.org/project/pyscard/#files

[mbokil]

In case you are looking for the install commands here they are:

# Install Brew 
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

# Install SWIG
brew install swig