Running pip install capstone==5.0.1 on a Windows ARM workstation will run setup.py which will then delegate to cmake to create a capstone.dll correctly.
Actual behavior
Running pip install capstone==5.0.1 on Windows ARM results in a compilation error with the following output:
❯ pip install capstone==5.0.1
Collecting capstone
Using cached capstone-5.0.1.tar.gz (2.9 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: capstone
Building wheel for capstone (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Building wheel for capstone (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [54 lines of output]
running bdist_wheel
running build
Building C extensions
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.40.33812.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.40.33812.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/bin/Hostx64/arm64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/bin/Hostx64/arm64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
Enabling CAPSTONE_ARM_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_ARM64_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_M68K_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_MIPS_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_PPC_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_SPARC_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_SYSZ_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_XCORE_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_X86_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_TMS320C64X_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_M680X_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_EVM_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_MOS65XX_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_WASM_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_BPF_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_RISCV_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_SH_SUPPORT
Enabling CAPSTONE_TRICORE_SUPPORT
CMake Error: File C:/Users/ScottFord/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-q4517k2w/capstone_d3c8687c49ad46db95ec0b37608615d5/src/capstone.pc.in does not exist.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:700 (configure_file):
configure_file Problem configuring file
CMake Error: File C:/Users/ScottFord/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-q4517k2w/capstone_d3c8687c49ad46db95ec0b37608615d5/src/capstone-config.cmake.in does not exist.
CMake Error at C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/CMakePackageConfigHelpers.cmake:344 (configure_file):
configure_file Problem configuring file
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:705 (configure_package_config_file)
CMake Error: File C:/Users/ScottFord/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-q4517k2w/capstone_d3c8687c49ad46db95ec0b37608615d5/src/cmake_uninstall.cmake.in does not exist.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:737 (configure_file):
configure_file Problem configuring file
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
NMAKE : fatal error U1052: file 'Makefile' not found
Stop.
error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'capstone.dll'
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for capstone
Failed to build capstone
ERROR: Could not build wheels for capstone, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
This appears to be because the following files required to build capstone on Windows ARM are not included as part of the source Python package (not version with a pre-built binary included). This is not an issue for Windows on x32/x64, because a platform specific package has been uploaded to PyPI for those OS/Architecture combinations.
Specifically, the call to cmake, as performed by setup.py, is failing to run because the capstone.pc.in, capstone-config.cmake.in, and cmake_uninstall.cmake.in files are not present in the source PyPI package. After experimenting with running cmake from the installation cache, after running pip install capstone==5.0.1 --no-clean, I experimented with copying those files from the GitHub repository, and I was able to get past that error, however others did appear.
Suggested fixes are to either release a binary PyPI package for Windows ARM and/or ensure that the files needed to build for Windows ARM are included in the source PyPI package.
Work environment
Expected behavior
Running
pip install capstone==5.0.1on a Windows ARM workstation will runsetup.pywhich will then delegate tocmaketo create acapstone.dllcorrectly.Actual behavior
Running
pip install capstone==5.0.1on Windows ARM results in a compilation error with the following output:This appears to be because the following files required to build
capstoneon Windows ARM are not included as part of the source Python package (not version with a pre-built binary included). This is not an issue for Windows on x32/x64, because a platform specific package has been uploaded to PyPI for those OS/Architecture combinations.Specifically, the call to
cmake, as performed bysetup.py, is failing to run because thecapstone.pc.in,capstone-config.cmake.in, andcmake_uninstall.cmake.infiles are not present in the source PyPI package. After experimenting with runningcmakefrom the installation cache, after runningpip install capstone==5.0.1 --no-clean, I experimented with copying those files from the GitHub repository, and I was able to get past that error, however others did appear.To work around the problem, I did the following:
gitcd bindings\pythonpython setup.py bdist_wheelcd distpip install .\capstone-5.0.1-py3-none-win_arm64.whiSuggested fixes are to either release a binary PyPI package for Windows ARM and/or ensure that the files needed to build for Windows ARM are included in the source PyPI package.